ARM release

[bamarni]

Would it be possible to have a release for linux arm? Thanks

[aelsabbahy]

I'm not as familiar with the ARM side of go.. I notice there's a bunch of versions of it:
https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm#supported-architectures

Are they backwards compatible or would this add 4 new binary releases?

[bamarni]

AFAIK they're pretty much backward compatible. I'm not that much familiar with the whole ARM ecosystem but ARMv5 seems very old, and was even considered for removal (golang/go#17082).

I think a release with GOARM=6 GOARCH=arm should be fine for most ARM users.

[elfgoh]

@aelsabbahy I think it will work fine just to support the default ARM version, as suggested by Dave Cheney. Or at least until there is a huge demand for other ARM versions