There is no requirement to manage these variables or to know about them, even if you don't use the installer.
I never use the installer and I've never needed to check on those environment variables. (The installation documentation is short and complete, maybe you should check it out again.) The installed go compiler is really just a trivial tree. On Tue, Dec 8, 2020, 17:38 Dumitru Ungureanu <itmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't use an installer. I set GOROOT/bin manually. And the rest follows. > Easy to remember, nothing to forget. > > On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 6:28:50 PM UTC+2 Gergely Födémesi wrote: > >> On 12/8/20, Dumitru Ungureanu <itmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Paths in symmetry with the environmental >> > variables: GOROOT is go/root, GOPATH is go/path, GOBIN is go/bin. >> GOCACHE is >> > go/cache, GOENV is go/env. >> > Bonus points: modules in go/modules. >> >> Why do you need to manage them explicitly? When do you need to look at >> GOROOT, GOBIN, GOCACHE or GOENV? >> >> (I've never set or checked GOROOT, GOBIN, GOCACHE or GOENV explicitly. >> After modules became the default, I've never set GOPATH either.) >> >> > >> > On Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 4:45:06 PM UTC+2 Gergely Födémesi >> wrote: >> > >> >> On 12/7/20, Dumitru Ungureanu <itmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ... >> >> > I'm currently using this directory tree for golang. >> >> ... >> >> What do you mean when you write "golang"? >> >> >> >> Why is https://golang.org/doc/install not good enough for the go >> >> compiler? >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > 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...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/f5c636d8-97e3-4fc1-a28f-d5cc93a0fa52n%40googlegroups.com. >> >> > >> > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/86ab9747-9c2c-4f91-9980-6d00b3a3af13n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/86ab9747-9c2c-4f91-9980-6d00b3a3af13n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CA%2BctqroS22ktu%3DWMkMtFHmwjJ0dBk_fa_vmVQXGAXT1bQFFe9Q%40mail.gmail.com.
