gosetup

Gosetup is an simple interactive commandline tool to setup a Go workspace.

This tool is inspired by The Go Workbench slides by adg.

Description

Gosetup performs the following actions:

• set GOPATH
• add GOPATH/bin to PATH
• create a hello world package with the following file
  • GOPATH/src/github.com/USERNAME/hello/hello.go

Output

This is the output of a simple session:

>>> Adding the following lines to /home/sina/.bashrc:
>>> 
>>>     export GOPATH="/home/sina/go"
>>>     export PATH="$PATH${PATH:+:}$GOPATH/bin"
>>> 
Continue [Y,n,e,?]? y
>>> Done. Changes will be reflected next time a terminal is started.

>>> Creating a hello world program with the following file:
>>> 
>>>     /home/sina/go/src/github.com/$USERNAME/hello/hello.go
>>> 
Enter your GitHub username or exit: siadat
>>> Done.

>>> Run this program with the following commands:
>>> 
>>>     cd "/home/sina/go/src/github.com/siadat/hello"
>>>     go run hello.go
>>>     go install
>>>     hello
>>>