I'm hoping this already has an answer, rather than require additional features. I also don't expect this to be a popular request, but I do consider its merits as greater than the disadvantages, so here goes.
Efforts to eliminate the use of the Unix "make" command by producing a vastly more modern "go" command have been valiant and largely successful, in my opinion, at least, but I personally come up short on a regular basis, perhaps because I don't really know the "go" command as intimately as I ought to. As soon as I need a slightly unusual target in a development environment, I am prone to add an entry in a Makefile (actually "mkfile" as most of my development occurs in a Plan 9 environment), but I come against a barrier: I need to determine not only if local modules are more recent than the target, but also if related modules in imported packages are fresher than the target. I don't mind having to list the packages involved, ideally by the label I use within the code for each of them, that is acceptable. What I don't know how to do and suspect may need a small enhancement to the "go" command, is to reach into each package (directory) and verify that it is or is not reason to rebuild the target. What I just realised is that my Makefile/mkfile-foo isn't sufficient to *do something* with such information, but at this point I'm willing to cross that bridge when I come to it. For now, having a "go status infernal/package", say, even if it provides a single reply: "updated=yes", for example (someone here will think of a better approach, no doubt) will be a useful start. Obviously, the command is run in a directory other than the one being verified. Suggestions, from anyone, on how to do something like that? I don't mind getting my fingers dirty, but I'm hoping for the direction that makes such a facility as useful to as many Gophers as possible. Lucio. -- 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.
