Golang requirements.txt equivalent

Question

Coming from a python/django world, it'd be great to have something like a requirements.txt equivalent for go/revel. How can I do this? I know I can just write a requirements.txt file and then do something like

cat requirements | xargs go get

But what if my requirements ALSO have requirements? The above command would attempt to "go get" them, and then they'd fail to build, since I don't have those requirements installed.

Is there something I'm missing?

Answer 1

The command go get does exactly what you need: It finds all dependencies and downloads and installs the missing ones. Focus on "all": go get really traverses your dependency graph.

Have a look at the documentation:

https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Add_dependencies_to_current_module_and_install_them

The Go documentation is really clean, short and well written. I would recommend always to have a look at the documentation first before making assumptions which are based on experience with other tools or tool-chains.

They also provide useful blog posts, https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules

Answer 2

I just found that the kubernetes guys actually have created an overview page for themselves here.

Summary is this: Currently stable is Glide and the cool new toy is called dep