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Easier Bootstrap for Go 1.5+

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#24 opened on Dec 2, 2015

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Description

Building Go 1.5+ from source requires that an existing 1.4 Go toolchain be on your machine and specified via the GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP environment variable. gonative will fail if that's not supplied right now if you're building Go1.5+. Instead, if the env var is unspecified, gonative should download a Go 1.4 installation native to your platform and use that for the bootstrap process.

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Research direction
Investigate how to detect the current platform and architecture, then download the appropriate Go 1.4 binary release from golang.org. Integrate the download and extraction into the bootstrap process, and add environment variable override handling.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backenddevops
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
Half day
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Fresh
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Mostly clear
Prerequisites
Go
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
70