appengine support?

[levb]

I'd really like to use this package for my own golang application, which is running on appengine. However, as it stands it doesn't seem to compile cleanly there. Would you consider making it "easy to use" on the appengine? I'd be willing to help out if needed.

specifically, I got these errors message immediately after cloning it into my project (I am using the go appengine 1.6.1 SDK):

/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:25: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:29: ce.Err undefined (type CartographyError has no field or method Err)
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:169: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:173: undefined: rune
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:192: undefined: strconv.ParseFloat
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:195: too many arguments to return
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:204: unknown CartographyError field 'Err' in struct literal
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:204: too many arguments to return
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:215: undefined: strconv.ParseFloat
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:218: too many arguments to return
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:228: unknown CartographyError field 'Err' in struct literal
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:228: too many arguments to return
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:239: undefined: strconv.ParseFloat
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:274: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:345: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:620: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:669: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:811: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:864: undefined: error
/Users/levb/Documents/dev/tw/github.com/the42/cartconvert/cartconvert.go:239: too many errors

2011/12/30 11:27:07 go-app-builder: Failed building app: failed running 6g: exit status 1

[levb]

never mind, just realized that there were all these changes in the golang that have not yet made it to the app engine SDK. I am going to temporarily bastardize your code just to stub things out, and then try again when the November release of golang is available on the appengine

[the42]

Hi,

you have two options:

1. The one you sketched. The current state of golang is almost Go 1 as of
   https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ny8uI-_BHrDCZv_zNBSthNKAMX_fR_0dc6epA6lztRE&pli=1

You can expect appengine to gain soon support for Go 1. There is no official nor preliminary deadline for this. The current cartconvert package is Go 1 ready.

1. You can travel back in time and checkout including commit 8527955 (update to weekly.2011-06-02)

This version should be save for appengine golang V3.

I would recommend #1. Anyway, you can expect the current golang-versions to be phased you relatively quickly.