Learning Functional Programming in Go

The Godep tool

I used Godep for a while. And it worked fine, but it was a hassle to use.

Godep created a Godeps.json file in a Godeps directory in the root of my project. Godep then created copies of all of my third-party packages into the Godeps directory at the root of my project. I typically checked those third-party packages into version control with the rest of my code.

Godep requires a number of steps that I find quirky. For example, to update a project's dependency, you will have to update it in your GOPATH via the go get -u github.com/another-thirdparty/package command, and then copy it from my $GOPATH to my project's Godeps directory via the godep save github.com/another-thirdparty/package command.

In my humble opinion, having to ...