RFE: Inspect dependency's Godeps/, glide.yaml, ...

[tnozicka]

When I vendor a project which vendors another project I want to prefer the version it uses not the newest one that might have the right packages but ends up not compile-able.

I think Glide does what I describe https://github.com/Masterminds/glide/blame/master/docs/resolving-imports.md#L17

Doing dep ensure and go install to find out what package is broken, inspecting Godeps.json in a loop is seriously time exhausting. My guess is that this break for packages not doing releases or not following semver but there is a lot of those.

[sdboyer]

yep, this is something we're working towards. gps was actually designed specifically with support for this in mind, and we can largely reuse the logic we already have for converting metadata files from Godeps, glide, etc. i typically refer to this as "on the fly metadata conversion" .

#920 is pushing towards implementing this.

[sdboyer]

closing this just to reduce duplicates, we have a couple issues about it already