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[jira] [Assigned] (THRIFT-5338) Proposal: Raise minimal supported Go version with upcoming 0.14.0 release

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5338?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Yuxuan Wang reassigned THRIFT-5338:
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    Assignee: Yuxuan Wang

> Proposal: Raise minimal supported Go version with upcoming 0.14.0 release
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>                 Key: THRIFT-5338
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5338
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Go - Library
>            Reporter: Yuxuan Wang
>            Assignee: Yuxuan Wang
>            Priority: Major
>          Time Spent: 40m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Currently (as of 0.13.0), the minimal supported Go version is 1.10.8, which is the latest point release in 1.10.x (released on 2019-01-23). I propose that we raise this version with 0.14.0 release. There are 3 potential versions we can raise it to:
> 1. go1.12.17 (released on 2020-02-12). This proposal is based on the release cycles of the 2 projects. (Go has a release very 6 months, while thrift has a release roughly every 12 months, so we raise 2 versions of Go with our release). This would give us benefit of proper go modules support, which was introduced in go 1.11.
> 2. go1.13.15 (released on 2020-08-06). This would give us the additional benefit of better error/exception handling, as currently in go library code there are a few places we have to do extra work because we have to support pre-go1.13 (examples: [1|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/7f9abb1cc0f4b2793a48f45ddfcf0d2b287cc50c/lib/go/thrift/transport_exception_test.go#L50-L51], [2|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/7f9abb1cc0f4b2793a48f45ddfcf0d2b287cc50c/lib/go/thrift/transport_exception_test.go#L69-L70], [3|https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/7f9abb1cc0f4b2793a48f45ddfcf0d2b287cc50c/lib/go/thrift/simple_server.go#L318-L319])
> 3. go1.14.x. There's no additional benefit for this one, but this will be the -latest- minimal officially supported go release when we release 0.14.0 (as stated by [Go release policy|https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#policy], only 2 most recent major releases will be supported by security fixes).
> I don't know if any of the thrift users are stuck with an older Go version. Consider go has very strong backward compatibility guarantee on the whole 1.x tree, I highly doubt that would be the case (unless someone is stuck on a platform that's dropped in later Go releases).



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