Decommissioning gx builds in go-libp2p

We recently migrated to gomod.

We haven’t made new gx releases since then, and we’ve reached a point where the lack of maintenance is causing issues.

We are not aware of any downstreams that are using gx and aren’t happy with evolving towards gomod, so at this point the responsible thing is to decommission gx completely across go-libp2p.

I will be pulling the trigger today in a few hours, unless someone yells. If you’re a gx stakeholder, please yell ASAP. Discussion took place at:

Please note that we’re working to integrate the go toolchain with IPFS using the hooks provided by gomod.

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