Test with latest Go patch versions

[AlekSi]

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[julienschmidt]

Isn't that doing exactly the same as before?
tip is the master branch, and 1.x should download the latest minor version already.

[AlekSi]

tip is the master branch

Yes, but gimme now uses master instead of tip for consistency. Mercurial days are long gone. 😄

and 1.x should download the latest minor version already.

If you mean latest patch version, then, unfortunately, no – 1.9 will install 1.9.

[julienschmidt]

Looks like I'm wrong. The output of our Travis builds doesn't indicate any minor revisions (1.x.x ). See e.g. https://travis-ci.org/go-sql-driver/mysql/jobs/289160333, which should use 1.5.4
The management of Go versions on Travis seems to have changed quite a bit since we started using it 😄

[AlekSi]

Yes, it is split between gimme and travis-build repos in a confusing way.

[julienschmidt]

For some reason go 1.5.4 doesn't seem to be able to import golang.org/x/tools/cmd/cover while go 1.5 did: https://travis-ci.org/go-sql-driver/mysql/jobs/293776591

[julienschmidt]

However, I think we agreed somewhere, that we only support the last 4 (or was it even 3?) versions of Go, so dropping Go 1.5 support should be fine.
We should document that e.g. in the Wiki.

[julienschmidt]

Let's see what the other guys say... #696

[julienschmidt]

#696 was merged!