Drop outdated/abandoned dependencies

[remycx]

Description

https://github.com/pmezard/go-difflib : as quoted, "THIS PACKAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED." ; code hasn't evolved in 9 years.
https://github.com/davecgh/go-spew : hasn't been touched in 6 years.

Removing old & dangerous code would lead to a cleaner codebase.

Proposed solution

Use case

Reduce the dependency on outdated & abandoned repositories, to improve the safety of the library, and the potential supply chain attacks.

[dolmen]

Easy to say. But what concrete solution do you suggest? Did you have a look at existing issues?

[dolmen]

@remycx Note also that I have proposed #1579 to unlink Testify from gopkg.in/yaml.v3 (which is as unmaintained as the 2 other dependencies mentioned here, and is, in my opinion, a much higher security risk, not for Testify but for the Go ecosystem in general). Your opinion and review of that PR would be welcome.

[dolmen]

@remycx Dropping abandonned issue.

[pohly]

Is https://github.com/google/go-cmp perhaps a viable replacement for https://github.com/pmezard/go-difflib?

[pohly]

go-cmp might be overkill. A simple diff implementation for two sequences of a comparable type like strings in

testify/assert/assertions.go

Lines 1883 to 1891 in b074924

	diff, _ := difflib.GetUnifiedDiffString(difflib.UnifiedDiff{
	A: difflib.SplitLines(e),
	B: difflib.SplitLines(a),
	FromFile: "Expected",
	FromDate: "",
	ToFile: "Actual",
	ToDate: "",
	Context: 1,
	})

isn't hard to write - I'll have a look.

[eero-t]

go-cmp might be overkill. A simple diff implementation for two sequences of a comparable type like strings in
...
isn't hard to write - I'll have a look.

@pohly Did anything come out of this? According to #736, there were 2 functions used from go-difflib.

[pohly]

No. I dropped the idea after a discussion on Slack, see https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C92321HDJ/p1727454579279159.