Given the writing on the wall that GOPATH is going away, what I have done is created a single module where I keep all my own code, each different experiment in its own subdirectory. I named it "github.com/...", but never submitted it to github, so in the future I can do that without too much fuss if I wanted to.
Having been writing Go heavily since 1.2, I find the all-code-in-one-module approach to be the easiest so far. -- Marcin On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 4:21 PM Bob Alexander <bobja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed -- module mode is great for "delivered code". But in a personal > single machine single developer environment, all the extra complexity and > manual overhead might not worth it. I'd guess that most students and > hobbyists don't even use SCMs. My point was that GOPATH mode is good for > them. > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:38 PM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> > wrote: > >> That is 100% true but a important point is that using GOPATH requires >> manual dependency management via ‘vendoring’. This can be very labor >> intensive and error prone - leading to security issues in your delivered >> code. >> >> On Feb 25, 2021, at 3:08 PM, Bob Alexander <bobja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> GOPATH mode does *not *limit your Go code to a single directory. I've >> seen this misunderstanding stated in probably hundreds of various posts. >> >> $GOPATH allows specification of multiple directories. I've used that >> capability for several years to distribute my Go code to my personal >> general library and to various application-specific libraries. Each of the >> multiple GOPATH directories refers to a Go "workspace", so the result is my >> general library workspace plus mini-workspaces in various application >> directories -- each with src, pkg, and bin subdirectories. A single go >> install installs all workspaces specified in your GOPATH at once, or you >> can selectively build by temporarily changing the GOPATH. >> >> This is a pretty good setup for me, a decades-experienced software >> engineer working in "programmer" mode for my personal development. >> >> Go's goal of ending GOPATH mode sounds like a choice to serve the >> professional software engineer, and not the personal programmer. Module >> mode is a good thing if you are publishing your code, but is a lot of >> additional labor and cognitive load for us "programmers". >> >> I wonder if this might discourage adoption of Go by certain categories >> such as college and high school students, non-software-engineer >> professionals who write internal programs for their business, and curious >> folks who want to introduce themselves to Go. It is soooo much easier to >> set up my environment with GOPATH mode. In attempting conversion to MODULE >> mode, I've spent lots of frustrating hours and it's still not working >> perfectly! >> >> So, I am +1 for retention of GOPATH mode (as well as MODULE mode), >> allowing Go users to make the choice of MODULE vs. GOPATH based on their >> needs. >> >> -- >> 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/CAKyHfRPYgop6YPgk3AcJ4Q43NgV%3D9KP%3DzgYja8Z6FJuc0UuPig%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAKyHfRPYgop6YPgk3AcJ4Q43NgV%3D9KP%3DzgYja8Z6FJuc0UuPig%40mail.gmail.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/CAKyHfRPw125S_800nhBxV9UrqHCaet-8WAO2q%2B1Xah3dhNiS5w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAKyHfRPw125S_800nhBxV9UrqHCaet-8WAO2q%2B1Xah3dhNiS5w%40mail.gmail.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%2Bv29Ltre_wThDS9d8YXHSqkLFY9tT8aOS0fYcg3KmWAPvETJA%40mail.gmail.com.
