syslog-gollector

Syslog Collector written in Go, streams to Kafka 0.8

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Syslog Collector written in Go, streams to Kafka 0.8

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e-dard·Sep 15, 2015

Maybe that's just poor documentation on the author's part. If you simply try and go get the package (running Go 1.5 here): ~ $ go get -u github.com/otoolep/syslog-gollector warning: code.google.com is shutting down; import path code.google.com/p/log4go will stop working warning: code.google.com is shutting down; import path code.google.com/p/snappy-go/snappy will stop working ~ $ Everything is fine (aside from the warnings about code.google shutting down). Yes, Go does not have a culture of versioning, but it _does_ have a culture of _vendoring_. You should be getting your reproducible builds by vendoring your dependencies. That way, you don't need to do any hunting or git-bisect shenanigans.

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ldite·Sep 15, 2015

Go get is an astonishing demonstration of failing to learn the lessons of the past; it's bad enough watching Python, Ruby, Node, Java et. al. painfully re-invent the wheel of dependency management, but at least they seem to have gained the notion of versioning. Go seems to have taken a look at the carnage of decades of dependency hell and decided "if we make no effort to provide a system then people will be forced to produce sane stable APIs". I've picked the short straw of trying to reproducibly build and package Go based projects for internal projects. The combination of go get and the Go ecosystem's cultural lack of versioning and stability are giving me a deep dislike of the language. First you have to play git-bisect on the dependencies (after you've hunted them down because of repo renames) in order to find the most recent one it bu

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ilds against (and who knows if that was the one written against!) Then you have to futz around to add in either some custom or third party vendoring script, and then you have to rinse and repeat for second order dependencies. For example, take the author's own first linked project. Following the build instructions: ~ $ mkdir ~/syslog-gollector ~ $ cd ~/syslog-gollector ~/syslog-gollector $ export GOPATH=$PWD ~/syslog-gollector $ go get github.com/otoolep/syslog-gollector package github.com/otoolep/syslog-gollector imports code.google.com/p/log4go imports github.com/otoolep/sarama imports code.google.com/p/snappy-go/snappy: unable to detect version control system for code.google.com/ path ~/syslog-gollector $ go install github.com/otoolep/syslog-gollector src/github.com/otoolep/sarama/snappy.go:5:2: cannot find package "code.google.com/p/snappy-go/snappy" in any of: /usr/lib/golang/src/code.google.com/p/snappy-go/snappy (from $GOROOT) /home/ldite/syslog-gollector/src/code.google.com/p/snappy-go/snappy (from $GOPATH) Well, I'm shocked.

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