README.md

Gaoler

A Go package manager

Usage

Usage: goaler [-v] [--config=<config-file>] [--main=<main-package>] COMMAND [arg...]

A Go package manager

Options:
  -m, --main="."                 Path to the main package
  -c, --config="./gaoler.json"   Path to the configuration file
  -v, --verbose=false            Enable verbose mode

Commands:
  list         List dependencies of your project
  update       Update dependencies of your project
  vendor       Vendor dependencies of your project

Run 'goaler COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.

Global Options and Arguments

• --config defines the location of the config file
• --main defines the location of the root directory of the project including the package main

Commands

• Find main package automatically
• List:
  • Lists all dependencies of the project, even local ones
  • Include test dependencies with option -t
• Vendor:
  • Vendor imported packages
  • Include test dependencies with option -t
  • Save depedencies with option -s to the config file
  • Load by default the config file to only vendor new packages (Use option -f to not use it)
  • Clean unnecessary directories (.git and unused directories)
• Update:
  • Update based branch updates

VCS

• Module :
  • git

Config

• You can choose the format between YAML and JSON by changing the extension of the config file in the options
• Scheme :

{
  "Name": "github.com/fische/gaoler",
  "Dependencies": {
    "github.com/Sirupsen/logrus": {
      "Remote": "https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus",
      "VCS": "git",
      "Revision": "revision",
      "Branch": "master",
      "Packages": [
        "github.com/Sirupsen/logrus"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Next release (0.4)

• Write tests for the whole projects (unit tests as well as E2E)

Packages

• Logger
• Error

Suggestion box

• Write a clean documentation
• Clean README and define conventions

Config

• Split test dependencies from the normal ones

Commands

• Clean:
  • clean vendor directory from any unused dependency
• Restore:
  • Restore vendor to statement as indicated in gaoler.json
• Update:
  • update based on GOPATH (used for packages without any remote repository or if you only want to update using GOPATH instead of the remote)
  • update using tags and similar syntax as npm

VCS

• Modules :

  • hg
  • bzr
  • svn

• Use git sparse-checkout to retrieve only files that we need

• Support whatever remote name

• Pending: Use package git2go with libgit2 for the implementation of Git.

Options

• Scripts