Re: rm golang-github-traefik-yaegi?

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@iki.fi>]

Adding Aloïs

On 18/10/25 10:22 pm, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> Hi Aloïs, go team,
> 
> golang-github-traefik-yaegi was a cool package that Aloïs and me worked on together
> to get into the archive back in 2021.
> 
> However, yaegi (being a go interpreter) needs to catch up to the go compiler versions
> which we upload to unstable. The upstream development is slower than the pace at which
> the actual go compiler moves.
> 
> It is still stuck to compatibility with go 1.22 version. I struggled during the time
> of bookworm release to somehow get it in stable, however it missed the trixie release
> due to being incompatible with go 1.24 and it needs non-trivial amount of work to get
> it working, and this needs to be done upstream.
> 
> Even now there is a github issue asking them to support go 1.24 and the last commit is
> 5 months back.
> 
> With this, I don't think we will ever be able to reliably ship this package.
> 
> Do you think it makes sense to go ahead with a removal for the same?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/traefik/yaegi/issues/1703 
> 
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Best,
Nilesh