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That's why there's https://go.dev/ref/mod#vcs-find . Your import path doesn't have to map directly to vcs repos, as long as you can serve an html meta tag to redirect it to where your current repo is:

    <meta name="go-import" content="root-path vcs repo-url">

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But you can't serve this meta tag if you don't control the URL/domain anymore, and you can't force all of your users to use e.g. an intercepting HTTP proxy for such requests.

You need to plan for this up front, same as with deliberately uploading a package to a central repo.

> You need to plan for this up front

How exactly? If e.g. the registrar seizes the domain name that I've originally used and gives it to someone else, what, exactly, are my plans supposed to be for that?

The exact same as if npm did it.

Thanks for the link. When I started learning Go modules that spec was not available (or it was a lot smaller). After a brief look I feel the Go modules spec is longer and more complex than the (original) Go language spec which is quite ironic :-D. I still like Go although it's sad seeing it straying from the 'one true' path of simplicity.

It's a bit shorter than the current spec, but it does cover more: how it works conceptually, how the default toolchain works, and how it interacts with a lot of things outside of a world it creates on its own (which is what a language is).

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