Relative paths passed to localInstall work unexpectedly

[matthijskooijman]

I'm a bit stubborn when it comes to go and directory organisation, so I tried to use vg to create a git clone of my project in whatever directory I wanted (without having to have it in src/github.com/foo/bar). I was hoping that that would take care of creating a virtual GOPATH somewhere, and automatically link my project directory into there in an appropriate place. Unfortunately that did not happen, so I needed a manual vg localInstall to get my project directory linked (which makes sense, since vg does not know the full package name of my project).

So, I tried:

/path/to/bar$ vg localInstall github.com/foo/bar .
/path/to/bar$ mount|grep bar
/path/to/bar on /home/matthijs/.virtualgo/bar/src/github.com/foo/bar type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000,default_permissions)

Which indeed correctly puts /path/to/bar in the virtual $GOPATH/src/github.com/foo/bar. However, in virtualgo.toml it stores the original relative path ., and it seems this path is interpreted relative to the current directory, not the project root. E.g. if I deactivate the workspace and then jump into a subdirectory of my project, things get broken:

/$ cd /path/to/bar/sub/ Activating bar Uninstalling "github.com/foo/bar" from workspace Unmounting bindfs mount at "/home/matthijs/.virtualgo/bar/src/github.com/foo/bar" Removing sources at "/home/matthijs/.virtualgo/bar/src/github.com/foo/bar" Removing "github.com/foo/bar" from locally installed packages Installing local sources at "." in workspace as "github.com/foo/bar" using bindfs (bar) matthijs@grubby:/path/to/bar/sub$ mount|grep bar /path/to/bar/sub on /home/matthijs/.virtualgo/bar/src/github.com/foo/bar type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000,default_permissions)

Should the path passed to localInstall be made absolute before storing it?

[JelteF]

I think it indeed makes sense to make the path absolute before storing. If you want to take a stab at it let me know, otherwise I think I'll fix it in a couple of days.

[matthijskooijman]

Thanks! No spare time, so I'll leave this one for you :-)