Consider using debug/gosym to determine import path from binary.

shurcooL / binstale

binstale tells you whether the binaries in your GOPATH/bin are stale or up to date.

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Consider using debug/gosym to determine import path from binary. #6

Open dmitshur opened 8 years ago

dmitshur commented 8 years ago

Sources:

https://blog.filippo.io/stale-goroot-and-gorebuild/
https://twitter.com/shurcooL/status/742172371935600640
https://github.com/FiloSottile/gorebuild

Potential test case (currently suboptimal behavior, since the binary is only one of these two Go packages, but binstale currently cannot know which one):

$ binstale go-diff
go-diff
    up to date: github.com/daviddengcn/go-diff
    STALE: sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/go-diff/cmd/go-diff

dmitshur commented 7 years ago

I've asked whether this approach can be relied on at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/3nqju0Cfbqk. Waiting on reply there.