Tools to extract packages?

[Andy Bursavich]

In the Kubernetes ecosystem, I frequently run into a problem where I want to use some custom resource but its API package is in the same module as its controller (and loads of other crap) that have a massive dependency chain (often broken and "fixed" with replace directives). In several instances I've sent PRs to remove dependencies on k8s.io/kubernetes from the modules, but this isn't scalable.

Do any tools exist that will extract a handful of low-dependency packages into a new module? It seems like something that must already exist and I'd rather not write it if I don't have to.

[Sebastien Binet]

Hi,

Jul 18, 2021 20:42:35 Andy Bursavich <aburs...@gmail.com>:

> In the Kubernetes ecosystem, I frequently run into a problem where I want to use some custom resource but its API package is in the same module as its controller (and loads of other crap) that have a massive dependency chain (often broken and "fixed" with replace directives). In several instances I've sent PRs to remove dependencies on k8s.io/kubernetes from the modules, but this isn't scalable.
>
> Do any tools exist that will extract a handful of low-dependency packages into a new module? It seems like something that must already exist and I'd rather not write it if I don't have to.

There was the beginning of such a thing at sur point in x/tools.
Nowadays, it seems most of the action is happening in rsc.io/rf

hth,
-s

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