If someone wanted to fork your library for one of their programs, they could also vendor the package with their changes until it's changed significantly enough that they think it's worth updating to its own namespace (and at that point, it really should be a different import path..)
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Basile Starynkevitch < bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm writing my first Go program, it is on GitHub monimelt > <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/> and I'm specifically talking of > the commit 15a7fbc61e141d62655 > <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/commit/15a7fbc61e141d626554be7ec3de612c5df2885c> > (master branch). See this question > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/LWAJF0mapkI/C1P2ond_EAAJ> > for more details and motivations. So I am not very familiar with Go. I'm > using Go 1.8 on Debian/Linux/x86-64 > > I understood it is better to have each package in its own directory (that > directory would often contain one or more *.go files implementing the > package, and probably one or more *_test.go tests; I don't mention the > tests files here....). > > So I have a package serialmo mostly in file > <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/serial/serialmo.go> > serial/serialmo.go > <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/serial/serialmo.go> and > that package (from my point of view, a "leaf" package) only depends on > standard Go packages (like "crypto/rand", "fmt" etc...) > > I also have a package objvalmo mostly in file objval/objvalmo.go > <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/objval/objvalmo.go> and > that package depends on the previous serialmo. > > However, I had to code there > > > package objvalmo > import ( > "fmt" > serialmo "github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/serial" > "runtime" > "sync" > "unsafe" > ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and I find very inconvenient to have to mention the path " > github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/serial" in the source code, notably because > if someone wants to fork my github project, he would have change my > username bstarynk/ by his own one in every package path like " > github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/serial" > > I tried (and I would prefer) to code > serialmo "../serial" > but that does not work. > > I'm certainly doing things very wrong. What did I missed? I'm using the go > tool to compile stuff. > > Thanks for reading and for your help. Regards. > > Basile Starynkevitch (France) http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- - Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
