Go modules

[eccles]

Not a bug but a request/question

when is go-ethereum moving to go modules instead of using dep?

[zjiekai]

People are working on it
#19605

[eccles]

Please see urfave/cli#904 where I had issues in my own repo with go get -u.
The suggestion is to use the github.com url for urfave/cli and not the gopkg.in url.

I also had problems with go-interpreter/wagon. (also pulled in by go-ethereum.)

The caveat here is that I am currently pinned to version 1.8.27 of go-ethereum due to circumstances beyond my control so I did not report this as a bug in go-ethereum.(yet)

Hope this is helpful.

[karalabe]

Yes, this is something we want to do. Unfortunately we need to switch over our launchpad builders to snaps + make launchpad meta packages because Go 1.13 is not available on older versions of Ubuntu. Until that work is done, go modules are blocked.

[Pet3ris]

I've just filed a potentially related issue.

It seems like not only does go-ethereum not use go modules, it may not be able to be used in any go module project that invokes the indirect leveldb dependency.