Venus: Use Go modules

[ZenGround0]

Description

So long gx 👋 we are migrating dependency management to go modules

• See the go modules wiki

• See the historical issue beginning the discussion in go-ipfs

• See some prior art in go-ipfs

• A script from @raulk for moving to go-mod

Acceptance criteria

Given the above resources, figure out how to move from gx to go-mod and do this.

Risks + pitfalls

Where to begin

A close reading of the above resources, or talk to @Kubuxu. Seems like @anacrolix and @raulk are also good people to consult on this.

[mishmosh]

A really useful Step 0: investigate all the resources pointed out above, and then draft a plan.

[hsanjuan]

I think I can do this

[hsanjuan]

See comments in #2221 about all the trouble I found..

[anorth]

A quick bit of context: we really want a good plan for this, but would like to land the actual, possibly-disruptive changes after our next release (so from 1 April).

[phritz]

agree with @anorth lets not land this this week

[hsanjuan]

I will continue at fil-fridays pace. I don't think there is a way to have a "good plan" without actually trying to do it like I did and surface the issues. Other than that, the actual go-modding is a very simple process. All the issues steam from the tooling around go-filecoin but there are no issues with go-filecoin itself.

[mishmosh]

I don't think there is a way to have a "good plan" without actually trying to do it like I did and surface the issues

@hsanjuan This makes sense. Continuing at fil-fridays pace sounds good 🙌

I believe @anorth's comment on "good plan" was to clarify that this doesn't need to be completed for the upcoming release next week — not "plan only, don't try it in code". Is that right @anorth?

[ZenGround0]

@hsanjuan you got scooped by @Stebalien: https://github.com/filecoin-project/go-filecoin/pull/2307

If there is more work to be done it should be added as a commit on 2307.

[anacrolix]

Should this be closed? It's not yet fixed.

[hsanjuan]

oh, sorry, I somehow thought #2307 had been merged