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0 pointspinkgodzilla7y ago0 comments

Can someone help me understand why people hate gopath? We have a script called govars.sh at the root of every project and it sets the gopath exactly the same way one would use virtualenv in Python. We remove the default one from .bashrc or .profile. This basically makes gopath disappear entirely - we never bother explaining to new devs what it "really" means. Just ask them to use our template project folder structure.

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kaeshiwaza7y ago

I've the same workflow, but like you said gopath disappear. You just hate gopath also :-) I mean, with go modules you will have the same workflow but without the need to adjust the envs.

sseth7y ago

At least i have found it limiting when I want have a mix of languages, and i am forced to have all the go packages in the root folder or live with strange package names. Hate is used a bit too often for my liking - nuisance would be more appropriate.

You are right that it is solvable. And in many other languages the package management etc have grown independently of the core language itself, from the community. So the attacks on the golang team seem a bit strange. Maybe they thought that these solutions would come from outside the core language team.

leadhyena7y ago

In my experience, it's a real pain to get golang projects to build in Jenkins, and it's probably the same for any CI/CD setup, simply because of the gopath. Jenkins agents expect to set up its build directories a very particular way, and so does go with its GOPATH. Juggling it just right to get it to work is frustratingly difficult.

In fact, the one main reason I'm looking forward to this release is because of the elimination of GOPATH. It'll make my day-to-day operations at work FAR easier.

pinkgodzillaOP7y ago

In gitlab ci, we run govars.sh which not just sets the gopath but also adds the "bin" folder to PATH. Then when we run tests we know where to get our compiled binary from. Our govars also sets the path on where to find our conf.yaml for env config. Didn't know it would cause so many issues in Jenkins!

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