On Thursday, 12 October 2017 11:23:08 UTC+11, Pat Farrell wrote: > ... But there was nothing that told me why.
Are you asking me why all your Go code should live inside of single directory? Hopefully others will reply. But I think it is because Go does not use any config files to build programs. There are no "project files" or "Makefile" or whatever. Go tools use your directory structure to work out how to build things. > Again, it looks like someone who hated Windows (and I hate Windows as much as any other developer) was forced to implement it and wrote the minimal documentation they could. They did this long ago, and no one has updated it That is what we have. If you think you can make it better, feel free to contribute or at least report an issue at https://golang.org/issue > Seriously? That sure seem like bad practices to me. Nearly all the code I've worked on over the past 40 years was too big to go into a single directory. Well Go tools put everything under GOPATH. > Which is a Linux-type instruction. Doesn't work on Windows `set GOPATH=c:\gopath` works for me on Windows. On Linux you want something like `export GOPATH=/home/alex/gopath` (this depends on what shell you use). >> Sure. But Go is still not supported on WSL. > > That is a bug. Yes, it is a bug. I hope Microsoft are working on fixing these. >> If you want to use development environment with bugs, then sure, you could do that. > > I'm sorry, this attitude is not helpful. I did not intend to offend you, I apologize if I did. I just stated the fact that WSL is too buggy to be used for development (in my opinion). But you are free to use whatever tools you like. > The installation for binaries uses some standard Windows installation tool, been the same since about Windows 95. Its clearly not written in go Or yes. Go installation program (like many others on Windows) is built using "WiX Toolset". But you don't even have to use that. You can just download Go as a zip file (search for "Zip archive" on https://golang.org/doc/install ) > I have now been dorking around on this for a couple of days. I think you are making things harder for yourself by trying to mix 2 new things at the same time: Go and WSL. I suggest you try and use Linux version of Go on your Linux computer or use Windows version of Go on your Windows computer. These scenarios are very common and people will quickly help you with that. Alex -- 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.
