From 31be6846cb81a0b032ab4dda3f39e1b483eb5622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Mart=C3=AD?= Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 16:38:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: clarify deprecation and point to modules See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38158. --- README.md | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b350cfc2be..2db8401528 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,18 +5,13 @@

-Would you like to see your company name here? We're looking for a stable source of -funding. - ## Dep `dep` is a dependency management tool for Go. It requires Go 1.9 or newer to compile. -`dep` was initially developed to experiment with a new dependency management system -for Go; but, as of Go 1.11, **the Go project has officially adopted a different approach, -based on the concept of Modules**, which is described in a [series of posts](https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules) -published on [blog.golang.org](https://blog.golang.org). +Please note that Dep was an official experiment to implement a package manager +for Go. As of 2020, Dep is deprecated and archived in favor of Go modules, which +have had official support since Go 1.11. For more details, see https://golang.org/ref/mod. For guides and reference materials about `dep`, see [the documentation](https://golang.github.io/dep).