The Go Programming Language

10.2 Import Paths

Each package is identified by a unique string called its import path. Import paths are the strings that appear in import declarations.

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import (
    "fmt"
    "math/rand"
    "encoding/json"

    "golang.org/x/net/html"

    "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql"
)

As we mentioned in Section 2.6.1, the Go language specification doesn’t define the meaning of these strings or how to determine a package’s import path, but leaves these issues to the tools. In this chapter, we’ll take a detailed look at how the go tool interprets them, since that’s what the majority of Go programmers use for building, testing, and so on. Other tools do exist, though. For example, Go programmers using Google’s internal multi-language build ...