fsnotify

I packaged a golang project once. I had to independently discover a lot of that. I'll also add that fetching a golang package was complicated. As I remember, GitHub seemed to be special cased. Other URLs involved an HTTP request with a ?go-get=1 parameter, and then parsing the returned HTML for certain meta tags¹. (I thought only Python was guilty of that sin!) Some URLs I ended up just re-writing, because gopkg.in packages effectively redirect to GitHub in ways that, if abandoned, allow someone else to intercept[1]. And none of this is documented anywhere particularly coherent. Bits here and there, maybe. (Why not use go itself? Because this platform's package manager wanted to verify that the software was being built from the correct source, by hashing the inputs. It also, then, fetched those inputs, so that there wasn't some form of b

Looking at Hugo's dependencies, the copy on my machine (possibly outdated) uses this library: https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify However, there's a moving notice on that page for this repo: https://github.com/go-fsnotify/fsnotify Fsnotify will probably make it into the standard library or other core golang repository at some point, given that it could help speed up the compiler. However there's nothing particularly mystical about it that prevents a 3rd party library from being just as good.