THthrwaway69·Jan 22, 2020
Have you tried using gvm?
https://github.com/moovweb/gvm
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9 sourcesI'm using gvm now, but updating your workspace is very tedious. Here's the related issue https://github.com/moovweb/gvm/issues/189, also I'm not convinced gvm is maintained anymore.
In Go 1.8 Release Candidate 1 is releasedTake a look at [gvm](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm) I create (similar to a python virtualenv) a pkgset, and then use `linkthis` to link my current directory as a certain path in my gopath. You could do it yourself with symlinks, but I've been loving the tool for other things it provides, too (like easy access to new versions).
You can feel free to have any repo path you want :D
In Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7Others already noted - it's backwards-compatible. But it's actually even a bit easier than that for an all-Go project. On Ubuntu, the easiest way to have go installed is to use gvm ( https://github.com/moovweb/gvm ).
Which means you do something like:
$ gvm install go1.7
$ gvm use go1.7
$ go build myproj
Errors? Fix them - and in the meantime, just switch back:
$ gvm use go1.6
$ go build myproj
It's impressively painless. I went from go1.4 to 1.6 without having to change a single line of code -- but the 'go vet' tool got better, so when I re-ran it, it pointed out a few things that I then fixed. The compile didn't break without them, notably.
In Go 1.7 freeze announcedgvm is also worthwhile, particularly on ubuntu, and particularly if you want to test out the RC without fully committing to it. https://github.com/moovweb/gvm
In Go 1.6 Release Candidate 1 is releasedThey are tools for managing multiple installed versions of a programming language. When developing software, we often specify dependencies using version numbers, which indicate the version of the language or library that should be used when running the software. Running the software with the specified language runtime or library version ensures that the expected features of that library or language runtime are available and also helps avoid unexpected issues related to differences in the environments, including different developer's local systems as well as remote server environments.
In the case of a programming language runtime, if you have one project that's configured to use version 2.2.4 of a language and another that's configured to use version 2.1.0, these tools provide an easy way to install and switch between the two versions.
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is is not unique to Ruby, and similar projects exist for other languages. For example, nvm (https://github.com/creationix/nvm) and n (https://github.com/tj/n) provide something similar for Node (JavaScript), gvm (https://github.com/moovweb/gvm) for Go, and multirust (https://github.com/brson/multirust) for Rust.