glock

The constant thrash caused by the lack of a standard package management tool—even a de facto standard. Just look at the various package managers that have come and gone over the years: 1. https://github.com/tools/godep 2. https://github.com/kardianos/govendor 3. https://github.com/robfig/glock 4. https://github.com/rogpeppe/govers 5. https://github.com/Masterminds/glide 6. https://github.com/golang/dep I'm sure I'm forgetting a few. And just when it seemed the Go team might be ready to standardize around Dep (6), they threw this wrench in the works. I'm of two minds about vgo. I think it has some interesting ideas, but Dep works today, is widely adopted, and has nearly all the features you'd expect from a modern package manager.

At work we have a monolithic repo containing Java, Go, Python, etc, organized like this: Java //src/com/yext/.. Go //gocode/src/yext/... GOPATH is set //gocode. .gitignore allows us to track only our code under the GOPATH using this snippet: /gocode/bin/ /gocode/pkg/ /gocode/src/*/ !/gocode/src/yext/ We use glock[1] to sync dependencies across the team, without having to check them in. The whole thing works very well at 50 developers and ~100 dependencies. [1] https://github.com/robfig/glock