golang: v↑ go1.16

Go1.16 is incremental improvement over Go1.15 with better and faster compiler,
runtime and module-mode improvements:

https://blog.golang.org/go1.16
https://golang.org/doc/go1.16

Since this Go release switches GO111MODULE default from "auto" to "on", but we
still have in-tree GOPATH-mode uses, add GO111MODULE=auto to our goenv.sh to
preserve previous behaviour for now.

Don't drop support for Go1.14, Go1.13, Go1.12 yet, as that no longer supported
Go releases are still being used by in-tree components(*).

Remain default at Go1.15 yet.

Switch helloworld to Go1.16 and test this patch on that
software-release.

(*) theia, caddy, galene, replication-manager, restic, gitlab and grafana

component/golang/buildout.cfg

@@ -68,6 +68,15 @@ md5sum = 7e4b8580bfe25ffc51501b1dc3d2d8ce
 environment-extra =
   GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=${golang14:location}
 
+[golang1.16]
+<= golang-common
+url = https://golang.org/dl/go1.16.src.tar.gz
+md5sum = b767f7e81d886b4208874ea953db2ce3
+
+# go1.16 needs go1.4 to bootstrap
+environment-extra =
+  GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=${golang14:location}
+
 
 # ---- infrastructure to build Go workspaces / projects ----
 
@@ -133,7 +142,7 @@ recipe	= slapos.recipe.template
 url     = ${:_profile_base_location_}/goenv.sh.in
 output	= ${gowork:directory}/env.sh
 depends = ${gowork.mkdir:recipe}
-md5sum	= f89553711ea95ad1f6727b76747a62bf
+md5sum	= 09c229292b341da0de933f5900de7011
 
 [gowork.mkdir]
 # NOTE do not use slapos.cookbook:mkdirectory here - if anything in software (not instance)

component/golang/goenv.sh.in

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ export PS1="(`basename $X`) $PS1"
 export GOCACHE=$X/cache
 export GOENV=$X/goenv
 
+# by default make go run in module-aware mode only if go.mod is present, and in GOPATH-mode otherwise.
+# (we still have some GOPATH uses; TODO -> default to "on" after GOPATH-mode usage is gone)
+export GO111MODULE=auto
+
 # strip trailing : from $GOPATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 GOPATH=$${GOPATH%:}
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$${PKG_CONFIG_PATH%:}

component/helloweb/buildout.cfg

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ parts =
 install =
     lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/helloweb/go/...
 
-golang  = ${golang1.15:location}
+golang  = ${golang1.16:location}
 
 # -*- go -*-
 [helloweb-go]

[Kirill Smelkov]

/cc @jerome, @luke, @tomo, @alain.takoudjou

[Łukasz Nowak]

Thanks, I just started a try to switch to Go 1.16 !923 (merged)

[Kirill Smelkov]

Thanks, @luke. You might want to also check !924 (merged) for proper modules support and so stop doing hacks in overriding gowork.goinstall.