Go 1.5's vendor/ experiment

Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Go versions before 1.5 did not provide any built in method for vendoring packages. The tools that currently exist today (godep, nut and a few others) basically exploit the implementation details of $GOPATH. Go 1.5 however includes a “vendor experiment”. With this experiment go commands will attempt to resolve dependencies in vendor/ directories.

Russ Cox explains it fairly well in his commit message:

If there is a source directory d/vendor, then, when compiling a source file within the subtree rooted at d, import “p” is interpreted as import “d/vendor/p” if that exists.

Development on Edward Muller

Go 1.5's vendor/ experiment