How do I use github packages in go?

Question

Sorry, very much a newbie golang question. I have a github project named journalbeat that I am modifying.

When I clone that repository I can set the GOPATH and run go get to grab all the imports and it places them into src.

I have a new import I want to add.

import "github.com/danwakefield/fnmatch"

but it doesn't grab it. How does simply running go get determine whether something is downloaded or not?

And finally, the vendoring system is used. How do I populate that with the fnmatch? do I create it manually? it all seems very cumbersome.

I thought go get was meant to make all this easy?

Answer 1

Try instead a dependency manager: the most recent and actively developed one is golang/dep .
Reading dep "issue" 943 , use:

dep ensure

That will set up vendored dependencies through import analysis, and you can configure locking those down if need be.

Answer 2

Try go get with the verbose flag -v like:

go get -v github.com/danwakefield/fnmatch

This will show you more details. Post the result here.

Answer 3

we use Glide package management tool for GO. Go check it out gitHub link