On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 3:14:07 AM UTC+1, Steve Francia wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 7:49:32 PM UTC-4, Florin Pățan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The idea is good but: >> - it needs to modify the path to add GOROOT/bin and GOPATH/bin to it >> > It does. If it didn't do this you've found a bug. Please report it. >
I'll have a look at it again. Thank you. > - it should allow for multiple versions of Go to be installed >> simultaneously (including 1.x.y vs 1.x.z versions) >> > Out of scope for this tool, though it can do it with passing along flag > arguments > If you want this to become the de facto way to install Go, then it's a must, not out of scope. Many people want to test a newer version of Go before switching to it, being forced to run a single version of Go because of this "installer" will not make anyone happy and will only serve to complicate things further. > - it should change the PATH on all three OSes regardless of the shell >> used, which is the hardest part I guess (as this is the part that trips >> over most of the people, along with the GOPATH requirement) >> > There's no such thing. ENV variables are shell specific. The PATH is > defined in the shell initialization script on *nix. It literally tells the > shell what directories to look in. On Windows it does this as the PATH is > set by an OS call directly. Unfortunately bash on Windows ignores it. > I meant, it has to provide support for changing the bash.rc, zsh.rc and other popular shells. > Thank you. >> > -- 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.
