diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3f324e2..7941ebd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ Logrus is a structured logger for Go (golang), completely API compatible with the standard library logger. [Godoc][godoc]. -**Seeing weird case-sensitive problems?** Unfortunately, the author failed to -realize the consequences of renaming to lower-case. Due to the Go package -environment, this caused issues. Regretfully, there's no turning back now. +**Seeing weird case-sensitive problems?** It's in the past been possible to +import Logrus as both upper- and lower-case. Due to the Go package environment, +this caused issues in the community and we needed a standard. Some environments +experienced problems with the upper-case variant, so the lower-case was decided. Everything using `logrus` will need to use the lower-case: `github.com/sirupsen/logrus`. Any package that isn't, should be changed. -I am terribly sorry for this inconvenience. Logrus strives hard for backwards +**I am terribly sorry for this inconvenience.** Logrus strives hard for backwards compatibility, and the author failed to realize the cascading consequences of such a name-change. To fix Glide, see [these comments](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus/issues/553#issuecomment-306591437).