Ebiten-free dependency

[TTSKarlsson]

Is there anything I can do to make raylib-go free of the ebitengine dependency for linux?

As it is now it downloads github.com/ebitengine/purego and I want to limit dependencies on more private parties.

[gen2brain]

I think there is no way to do that; it is how Go works. I also do not like that, but there is no way around it. It is not used if you are not building without CGo, but it will always be a dependency. Similarly, e.g., with tests in other projects, you cannot even use some dependency JUST for tests, it will always be a dependency of the project. That is not even an issue; I am working on another project that includes C source. For EVERY change in the C file, like one line changed, I have to REBUILD 30+ C files. Those issues should be addressed in Go source and build tools, not possible to do it for individual projects.

[gen2brain]

Btw, it is not a dependency on ebitengine, it is a purego dependency from the ebitengine project.

[TTSKarlsson]

Yes I get it, but other maintainer. It's okay, it is what it is =)

[gen2brain]

I hope we will eventually get this support in Go, so we do not have to use 3rdparty dependencies if we want to call some C functions from the shared library without linking to it. Purego is an amazing project, it explained that it IS possible.

[TTSKarlsson]

Yep, it's really good and have no subdependencies either, so it's not bad in any way. It's not really about that as you clearly understand too =)

It would only really be a problem if the other maintainer had a change of mind and removed it from github suddenly or something else unforeseen.