go-scratch

GOLANG project template

This is my personal go-lang project template. It is built with these 2 goals in mind:

• Everything should be local to the development folder as much as is possible without resorting to ugly hacks.

• N-step build without any special setup after any git clone on a newly minted machine except for installing the go compiler itself.

• Do not rely on global GOPATH and yet still allows you to check your entire source folder in as if you would a normal go program. This makes your repository still plays well with other go coders and global GOPATH convention.

Makefile

Everything is done through the Makefile for convenience. A wrapper script ./go is also provided that invokes go with GOPATH sets to the local .go folder.

Makefile tasks defaults to all and vet. The all is simply an alias for the build task. All common tasks you'd do with go is written the same way with regards to the Makefile so go vet is, through the Makefile, make vet.

Dependencies

Special Makefile task deps and the list file deps.list is provided to list all the required go-lang import paths you need in your project.

Running make deps will result in calling go get for each of the dependencies listed in the deps.list file.

Sample

Here's a sample output of what happens when you simply cloned this gist and issue make:

$ make
./go vet .
./go get github.com/gorilla/mux github.com/gorilla/context
./go build .

Basically it automatically go get any missing dependencies for you and then invokes the build command with the local folder. All dependencies are stored in the local folder .go which is basically your local go workspace (as opposed to a global one.)

TODO:

• Package this into a script.

LICENSE:

WTFPL