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minor factual adjustment: "go get" doesn't update a package once it's been downloaded. you need to force it.

"there is no guarantee that a build will be the same from day to day" is simply not true.

Oh, indeed. I must've got mixed up: it doesn't guarantee that builds will the same from machine to machine (unless you run go get at the exact same instant).

So, in Golang there is no concept of package version?

For them different location (to import from) for an incompatible version is good-enough.

go get is just a mechanism, not the tool. there are other tools build on top of go get that ensure proper versioning.

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