TRtransfire·May 1, 2016
What you need is... a [goat](https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat)
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goat
A simple, yaml-based go dependency manager
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7 sourcesGoat: Yet another dependency manager for go
2 points · Open discussionAlso, for variety (and a shameless plug), check out:
https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat
In Go 1.3 is releasedGoat (https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat), which isn't especially well known, does a lot of this in a more palatable way. I prefer using it when I don't need to edit/tweak my dependencies.
In [dead]I'll throw my hat in with all the other contenders in here. I've written a tool called goat which wraps around the normal go utility and sandboxes it to a directory, as well as providing versioned dependency management.
It's very simple and easy to use (there's only one new command), and adding it to a project requires no changes to existing code. We've been using it where I work and it's been very effective.
V1 is going to be released soon, check out the current version at https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat
In A simple virtualenv for Go> Dependency management from _source_ form is a problem with Go, one that is actively acknowledge and being worked on
A bit off-topic from the original article, but I wrote a little tool for this very purpose. It's still not fully fleshed out, but we're using it at my place of work and it's worked out pretty well so far. I haven't gotten much coverage of it though, so if anyone wants to take a look at it and send some comments/suggestions, that'd be pretty awesome:
https://github.com/mediocregopher/goat
The nice thing about goat is that if you've been following go's best practices for development (namely, all of your import paths use the absolute import path, for example "github.com/whatever/myproject/submodule") then you won't have to change ANY of your existing code.
In The Reliability of GoGoat: A simple, json-based dependency/sandboxer for go
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