Show HN: StableLib, an LTS distribution of Go packages

xena · on July 1, 2015

I'm not big on it being a paid project. https://www.stackage.org/ does the same thing for haskell for free.

dchest · on June 30, 2015

Someone posted before it was released here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342769

Now that it's released, I thought I'd post it as "Show HN" with a link to blog post. Happy to answer your questions!

kodis · on July 1, 2015

I'm unclear on the origin of these packages: are they all original works, or a vetting and repackaging of other packages? If the later, how are improvements being sent up stream?

dchest · on July 1, 2015

The latter (although some are original works); if you browse https://stablelib.com/v1/, you can see links to upstreams for each package in "Information" section. Improvements are sent via whatever method the original accepts, mostly GitHub pull requests.

advanderveer · on July 1, 2015

Awesome! Is there a way of proposing packages? I for one would love to see the following be included:

- github.com/hashicorp/errwrap - github.com/mattn/go-issatty - a file system notification lib (fsnotify, timeglass/snow etc)

dchest · on July 1, 2015

Thanks! I'll make a website page for package proposals, meanwhile a simple email to info@stablelib.com (or a comment here) will do :)