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		kortex on Sept 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go modules have a v2+ problem > It’s traditional at least with web browsers to not send the fragment to the server. Ah, TIL, thanks! I meant more "why must the import syntax use specifically this scheme to denote versions". I guess backwards compat?

yencabulator on Sept 11, 2020 [–]

Import paths are used to figure out where to fetch the source code from. To simplify a bit, if you see `example.com/foo/bar`, it works because there's an appropriate meta tag at https://example.com/foo/bar?go-get=1 . The import paths are pretty directly used as URLs.

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