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Golang support #2

Closed DanielHeath closed 11 years ago

DanielHeath commented 11 years ago

Golang only needs one environment variable set; GOPATH.

Homebrew and apt both have install scripts, but building from source might be better given how frequently solid improvements are landing at the moment.

richo commented 11 years ago

Isn't GOPATH project specific? Also, I'm pretty sure I read about some GOROOT madness in 1.1.1 (which actually sounds more like a _vm problem).

Right now I haven't even tackled installers, except as a general note about how you would implement them as contrib modules, although I might do that for ruby-install at least since a few people are now using it at work.

richo commented 11 years ago

http://golang.org/doc/install

This suggests that GOROOT is specific to the go install, and GOPATH is a project thing, which makes sense.

I'll make _go GOROOT aware, but: http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GOPATH suggests that there are some nasty side effects to having both.