This seems like a description of NPM in the node ecosystem, they are incremental...

rco8786 · on May 14, 2018

That’s, like, the opposite of npm though. It does dependencies per project, versioning, and does not impose any filesystem restrictions. Not that it doesn’t have issues.

Can_Not · on May 14, 2018

How is it the opposite of npm?

rco8786 · on May 14, 2018

All of the reasons I listed...?

Can_Not · on May 14, 2018

But npm does all of those...

rco8786 · on May 14, 2018

I know...Golang does the opposite of each of those. Here's some excerpts of the comment we responded to:

> It's distasteful of Go to impose a filesystem layout.

> To achieve [self-contained dependenceis] with Go, one has to set a different GOPATH per project, and then checkout the project deep into that root.

> Given that Go doesn't really do package versioning...