Golang modules

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Go modules are a collection of packages that are intended to be released together.
You define your project requirements in at the module level,
and you can publish module-versions to the go package index.

Modules

Creating/Requiring Modules

See go.mod file.

Module Requirements

See also go.mod file .

go mod graph       # show requirements tree
go mod tidy    # ensure go.mod matches src
go mod vendor  #
go get ...     # add requirement to go.mod

Vendoring

Publishing Modules

Public Modules

All published packages are public by default.
You can retract package versions if you discovered a mistake.
Official package publishing instructions here.

Release Preparation

go mod tidy
go test
git tag v0.0.1
git push origin v0.0.1

Publishing your package

# adds your package to the index
go list

# add specific module-version to a specific-index
GOPROXY=proxy.golang.org \
  go list \
  -m example.com/mymodule@v0.1.0

Private Modules

Go executables are installed/built from src.
You'll need to add your package to $GOPRIVATE envvar to stop it from being indexed.
While unset $GONOPROXY and $GONOSUMDB, will fall back on $GOPRIVATE.
Otherwise you'll want to set these to prevent your packages from getting added to the index.