TStschellenbach·May 21, 2018
Super confusing that they picked a name that's so similar to VG (the tool to manage your go workspaces, similar to python's virtualenv): https://github.com/getstream/vg
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Virtualgo: Easy and powerful workspace based development for go
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2018 | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2018 | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2018 | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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14 sourcesWhile it's not perfect, if you use Dep and VG your vendoring issues are pretty much solved: https://github.com/getstream/vg https://github.com/golang/dep
In Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)My main method of keeping track of this is creating a symlink to all my actual projects in my regular ~/work directory. Appart from this most people use vendoring, but I use (and maintain) virtualgo instead: https://github.com/GetStream/vg
It supports working on a dependency of a project locally with ease, by using "vg localInstall" which is a extreme pain with vendoring. And also it supports version pinning of executables.
In What I learned in 2017 writing GoDep (which is very similar to bundler) really solves most of the problems with Go dependency management and is the official tool everyone is converging to now: https://github.com/golang/dep
For the problems it doesn't solve I've created virtualgo at my job, which is similar to rvm or virtualenv: https://github.com/GetStream/vg
In What I learned in 2017 writing GoFor dependency management we use Dep (https://github.com/golang/dep) combined with (https://github.com/getstream/vg). This works pretty well.
In What I learned in 2017 writing GoIt's definitely a hack, but for development environments it's quite an effective one. Which is why we actually created a (more user friendly) clone for Go development. It's called Virtualgo, and it's mentioned near the end of the article as well. https://github.com/GetStream/vg
In Why we switched from Python to GoAuthor here. Super cool to see this post on HNews.
For those of you working with Go. One of the guys on our team wrote a little tool called VirtualGo. It's pretty handy when you're working on multiple go based projects (https://github.com/getstream/vg)
In Why we switched from Python to GoI use virtualgo[0] so I can organise my work properly and not mix my own stuff up with loads of unrelated libraries
[0] https://github.com/getstream/vg
In Golang: Don't be afraid of makefilesHave a look at virtualgo
https://github.com/getstream/vg
In Porting 4.5K lines of C to Govirtualgo, a tool to add workspace based development to go projects
1 points · Open discussionYou should try out https://github.com/GetStream/vg, it handles managing of multiple gopaths in such a way that cding to a directory switches you automatically.
In Toward Go 2If you look two parents up you see my colleague posted virtualgo (https://github.com/GetStream/vg). That's the tool I built at my company support GOPATH and version pinning (which is forwarded to dep). You can use it to solve the exact issue you're describing by using "vg uninstall packageName".
In Toward Go 2We've worked around it like this and it works pretty well:
https://github.com/getstream/vg
In Toward Go 2