Why Glide 0.8 Is Our Biggest Release

The Go package management ecosystem has been missing something -- something most other language ecosystems have had for a long time. The new version of Glide brings it.

Historically, Go dependency management has shied away from a package management philosophy. Instead, two approaches have been advocated:

Copy all your dependencies into your project and manually manage them. Use a tool that pins your dependencies to a particular VCS commit (e.g. a Git SHA).

(An earlier approach, "always...