On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 12:22:28 PM UTC-5, Victor wrote: > > Hello everyone. I'm looking for best practices on how to setup your > development environment using Go modules. > > Let assume a situation when you work on a project where you write a go > package (call it Pkg) and an application (App) that uses that package Pkg > and keep writing code in both. Using GOPATH, the process is pretty > straightforward: you create your workspace, then you open $GOPATH/src/App > project in your IDE and just continue editing .go files in both folders: > $GOPATH/src/App and $GOPATH/src/Pkg where Pkg can be in a form " > github.com/author/pkg" and that way in your App you can import it by the > same "github.com/author/pkg" name and everything works since when you > build App, it looks for that package in $GOPATH/src/github.com/author/pkg > folder and always uses your latest changes. And since you have direct > access to that folder in your IDE, you can continue editing Pkg while at > the same time editing App. > > Now assume a situation where I want to get rid of GOPATH completely and > start using modules. That way I'd put my App and Pkg folders in > ~/Projects/App and ~/Projects/Pkg (since I don't have to put them in GOPATH > any more). But then once App starts using go.mod file (assuming GO111MODULE > is auto), it will be driven by "github.com/author/package" and store it > in a local cache and not be using ~/Projects/Pkg where I make changes at > the same time while working on ~/Projects/App. > > What would be the best practice to setup your development environment > using Go modules? >
You'll want to add a replace directive to the go.mod file to reference the copy of your library Pkg on disk, e.g. replace github.com/author/package => ../<wherever>/package -- 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.
