go.mod中不兼容的内容会造成伤害吗？

Question

I'm using goczmq in my project, something like next:

main.go:

package main

import (
    _ "github.com/zeromq/goczmq"
)

func main() {
}

And more, I'm using golang 1.12 with gomod to manage my project.

See next, I use go mod init xxx, and when build, it downloads goczmq automatically for me and add dependency to go.mod, but has incompatible in it. (But for other library I may get something like github.com/kolo/xmlrpc v0.0.0-20190717152603-07c4ee3fd181)

go.mod:

module pigeon

go 1.12

require (
    github.com/zeromq/goczmq v4.1.0+incompatible
)

From some discussion (for other library), e.g. this, it seems the library owner should do something to support golang 1.12? But in my case, all things works fine just a incompatible there make me a little worried (I mean all seems ok now, but some day when I use an api which I never used before, there will be hidden bomb there...?)

So my question:

Should I worry about this, or this is just as expected?

Answer 1

+incompatible means the dependency has a semver major version of 2 or higher and is not a Go module yet (it doesn't have go.mod in its source code).