Why is the internal package internal?

[rogchap]

Is there a reason for the cache code being an internal package, which means it can't be imported outside of the golangci-lint module?

I'm creating a linter.Context in my project to run some analyzers, but can't instantiate a pkgCache because it's an internal package; it's the only thing that is. Without it you get a nil pointer error.

golangci-lint/pkg/lint/linter/context.go

Line 28 in fd6fce9

PkgCache *pkgcache.Cache

[ldez]

golangci-lint is not designed to be used as a library.

We don't want to do that, because we want to keep the freedom of breaking the code.

So don't use it as a library.