The good news is that Dave Cheney moves at that same rapid clip. :-) On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Dave Cheney <d...@cheney.net> wrote:
> > Apparently Dave Cheney says to prefer "go install" over "go build"[3], > except when cross-compiling [4]. However, many of these posts are older, > and Golang moves at such a rapid clip that it's difficult to keep track of > what everybody is doing. > > This information is still correct. > > > On Friday, 10 February 2017 02:55:25 UTC+11, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> >> Hello Gophers! >> >> There's a fair amount of documentation available[0] about how "go >> install" works, particularly in contrast to "go build,"[1,2] but not a lot >> about which one is more idiomatic/preferred. Using the standard toolchain, >> it seems there's three ways to build your applications: >> >> - go build >> - go build -i >> - go install >> - Are there more that I'm unaware of? Are some preferred in certain >> circumstances (for example, "go install" for development, "go build" on CI >> or for building *.rpm and *.deb packages?) >> >> Apparently Dave Cheney says to prefer "go install" over "go build"[3], >> except when cross-compiling [4]. However, many of these posts are older, >> and Golang moves at such a rapid clip that it's difficult to keep track of >> what everybody is doing. >> >> Larger projects tend to use a bunch of shell scripts, so it can be >> difficult to tell what they're doing underneath, but I just did a quick >> survey: >> >> Kubernetes[5] and OpenShift[6] use "go install" to build, and a cursory >> search of those repositories shows a healthy mix of both "go build" and "go >> install" amongst vendored libraries. Docker appears to use "go build"[7]. >> >> That Heartbleed/Ticketbleed guy with the great hair builds with "go test >> -i" if I'm reading the hellogopher code correctly[8]. >> >> Tim Hockin's boilerplate project uses "go install"[9]. >> >> Hopefully I didn't just accidentally start a flamewar/bikeshedding >> session with this question... Seems like an important thing to settle. I'm >> curious to hear your thoughts! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Jonathan >> >> [0] https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Compile_and_install_packa >> ges_and_dependencies >> [1] https://github.com/NanXiao/golang-101-hacks/blob/master/ >> posts/go-build-vs-go-install.md >> [2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between- >> build-and-install-in-Go >> [3] https://peter.bourgon.org/go-best-practices-2016/#build-and-deploy >> [4] https://dave.cheney.net/2015/08/22/cross-compilation-with-go-1-5 >> [5] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/3897fc00db >> 947c5f782a8b9c68602339b16deeaa/hack/lib/golang.sh#L478-L481 >> [6] https://github.com/openshift/origin/blob/6d206d23bdf3654 >> df3537ba034fa5bc7e5ad4697/hack/common.sh#L223-L228 (I think this was >> copied from k8s) >> [7] https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/c07234707878412eaa >> eab252af19adac8cf25d6b/hack/make/.binary#L34-L42 >> [8] https://github.com/cloudflare/hellogopher/blob/master/Makefile#L33 >> [9] https://github.com/thockin/go-build-template/blob/43e119 >> bda6199d80ecf6982b05b837e091aaeeba/build/build.sh#L37-L40 >> > -- > 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. > -- Michael T. Jones michael.jo...@gmail.com -- 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.
