Go install fails with Go 1.8.3 on Darwin

[Alex Ellis]

I was trying to install the binary and got this error:

$ go install github.com/travisjeffery/jocko

# github.com/travisjeffery/jocko
./jocko.go:33: syntax error: unexpected = in type declaration

$ go version:

go version go1.8.3 darwin/amd64

Have you thought of doing releases of the binary through GitHub? We do this on OpenFaaS and you're welcome to cookie-cut the process, it's immensely useful. ( example: https://github.com/openfaas/faas-cli )

[Alex Ellis]

I manually patched the error then using the Makefile also fails with errors like:

dep ensure
go test -v ./...
vendor/github.com/armon/go-metrics/circonus/circonus.go:9:2: cannot find package "github.com/circonus-labs/circonus-gometrics" in any of:

You don't even have circonus-labs in your lock file..

I'd like to build Jocko or get a binary release so I can start evaluating it for use.

[Travis Jeffery]

You need go 1.9 for type aliases. I put up a 0.0.1 release. I'd only use it for testing atm.

[Alex Ellis]

Looked like it was a single type alias on one line that caused the breakage. You could keep compatibility by reversing that, or state clearly that Go 1.9 is needed 👍