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+Google App Engine Go Language SDK
+
+The Go SDK's includes a web server application that simulates the AppEngine
+environment, including a local version of the datastore, Google Accounts, and
+the ability to fetch URLs and send email directly from your computer using the
+App Engine APIs. The Go SDK uses slightly modified versions of the development
+tools from the Python SDK, and will run on any Intel-based Mac OS X or Linux
+computer with Python 2.5.
+
+Homepage: http://code.google.com/appengine
+
+Alternate download site - Project site: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine
+
+NOTE: There are some minor limitations to the Go SDK for App Engine vs the full
+blown Go Language SDK, but for most part this package can be used to develop and
+compile stand-alone Go programs as well.  See The Go Programming Language Blog,
+Tuesday, May 10, 2011, Go and Google Appengine at
+http://blog.golang.org/2011/05/go-and-google-app-engine.html for more details.
+
+WARNING: This SlackBuild puts the Google Appengine Go SDK tools onto your PATH
+using the script gae.sh (or gae.csh) in /etc/profile.d that is sourced by
+/etc/profile (or /etc/csh.login).  If you also install the Google Appengine
+Python SDK then the gae.sh (and gae.csh) scripts will clash and you'll be left
+with a gae.sh.new (and gae.csh.new) file in /etc/profile.d.
+
+THIS IS INTENTIONAL!!!
+
+This is because Google's Go and Python SDK's for Appengine contain Python
+scripts with the same names that are different: you cannot use, for example, the
+appcfg.py or dev_appserver.py from one SDK on apps written with the other SDK!
+
+It is up to you to sort out this mess and decide which - if any - SDK's tools
+you want on the PATH and which you'll call with the full path.  I had written
+some wrapper scripts (inspired by Google's own gomake script) that work around
+this issue; but I felt this solution was more appropriate for Slackware and
+absolved me of the responsability of untangling Google's mess!
+
+AND ANOTHER WARNING: If you also install the Google Go language SlackBuild
+you'll have another clash since the Appengine Go SDK contains a subset of the Go
+language SDK; it has some of the same tools and relies on the same environment
+variables (in particular GOROOT). So you need decide if you want to keep the Go
+Appengine on your PATH or the Go Language (via /etc/profile.d/go.sh and
+/etc/profile.d/go.csh).
+
+Sorry, but I don't write 'em - I just build 'em!