[THRIFT-5358] Add go.mod file(s)

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.15.0
• Component/s: Go - Library
• Assignee: Yuxuan Wang
• Reporter: Yuxuan Wang
• Created: 19/Feb/21 21:42
• Updated: 11/Sep/21 12:31
• Resolved: 01/Aug/21 17:13

Description

Go 1.16 already disallowed building without go.mod file by default (still override-able with GO111MODULES=auto environment variable), and Go 1.17 will remove that override option, so we need to add go.mod file(s) to unblock developers working on tip and using Go 1.16+.

Based on the current discussion on https://github.com/golang/go/issues/34055, we probably will need to add 2 go.mod files:

1. one under lib/go/thrift for our users to use. A release process change is also required because of this file: for all the future releases, we would need to double tag with "lib/go/thrift/" prefix (e.g. for 0.15.0 release we would need to git tag "v0.15.0" and "lib/go/thrift/v0.15.0" on the same commit)
2. another under root for the tests to work on Go 1.16+

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2353