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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:07:46 -0600
Subject: Re: [golang-dev] Proposed change to format of "go version"
To: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Cc: David Chase <drchase@google.com>, Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>, 
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if it can come out as JSON that would be helpful on our projects <ducks>

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:02 AM Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
wrote:

> New const alongside TheVersion in runtime/internal/sys written by dist at
> the same time/place as the Version?
>
> And then some internal package that go/build could depend on to access it,
> possibly with some //go:linkname magic if needed?
>
> Neither internal/bytealg or internal/cpu or internal/poll sound
> appropriate, so maybe we just need a new package. internal/buildinfo ?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:45 AM, David Chase <drchase@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there an approved or usual method for this?  I can go looking, but if
>> you already know the answer that's even better.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:40 AM Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:11 AM, 'David Chase' via golang-dev <
>>> golang-dev@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are we happy with an extra invocation of "go tool compile -V" in "go
>>>> build" and "go test" to get our hands on that flag, for purposes of using
>>>> it as a build tag?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Those aren't the only choices. You can put it in the binaries elsewhere
>>> such that go/build <https://goto.google.com/build> can access it,
>>> without shelling out to other programs and without shoving it in Version.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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