Question: move to Go 1.7+ stdlib 'context' package?

[gyuho]

Following #326 and #326 (comment)

So golang/protobuf's plan is wait until Go 1.9?
We just want to know the timeline (c.f. etcd-io/etcd#6174, etcd-io/etcd#7790).

Any updates?

Thanks!

[gyuho]

I talked to @dfawley yesterday in person. And think we are ok with waiting for type alias in Go 1.9.

Thanks.

[alexkreidler]

Any updates on this?

[dfawley]

See grpc/grpc-go#711 for some discussion on why we are not going to do this until Go 1.9 is grpc-go's oldest supported version (tl;dr: we need everyone to have type aliases to avoid breaking backward grpc/protoc compatibility).

[dsnet]

Unfortunately, the generation of context will not change until there are two releases of Go with type aliases. Thus, when Go1.10 is released, we'll make the change.