Sure, for my development environment, I can do all this.. But on a server with only Go installed, in order to use go get, I have to setup GOPATH, I have to installed git. And I have to cross the great firewall of china.
Oh my god, thank you guys. forget what I said. Go is not built for doing such a simple thing. To myself: Man!, just stick with Python.... On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 11:43:29 AM UTC+8, Diego Medina wrote: > > Hi, > > If you don't want to have to copy/paste that snippet of code on a new > laptop/OS install, I have been using: > > $ go get github.com/rif/spark > $ spark static_site/ > > for the last couple of years, works great, it's simple. > > https://github.com/rif/spark > > Regards, > > Diego > > On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 11:10:29 PM UTC-4, Dave Cheney wrote: >> >> > Since Go is battery included and http is part of its core library, >> >> We said batteries, not the kitchen sink. >> >> But seriously, the standard library gives you the components to build >> these tools yourself. If the Go distro included a http server that just >> served static files, while this would be perfect for your use case, others >> who wanted a server that forwarded to FastCGI would be incensed that Go >> shipped with such a limited tool, and furthermore we refused to improve it. >> It's better to give you the tools to write exactly the program you want, >> then you can share it with the world via go get. >> >> On Friday, 30 September 2016 12:14:26 UTC+10, Darren Hoo wrote: >>> >>> One thing that I really like about python is this one command line to >>> serve static files: >>> >>> python -m SimpleHTTPServer >>> >>> >>> This is very convenient. >>> >>> >>> Now I just want to use Go to do the same thing, I have to copy the >>> snippet from >>> >>> https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/HttpStaticFiles and go run it. >>> >>> >>> Since Go is battery included and http is part of its core library, why >>> not >>> >>> just build it into the Go toolchain, So every time I want to serve >>> static files, >>> >>> I can fire up go like this: >>> >>> >>> go tool http /usr/share/doc >>> >>> >>> go tool http --addr=:8888 /usr/share/doc >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
