gpm - Go Package Manager
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gpm(Go Package Manager) is a Go package manage tool for search, install, update, share and backup packages in Go.
This application still in experiment, any change could happen, but it doesn't affect download and install packages.
## Main features
- Download packages from popular project hosting with/without version control tools.
- More specific examples, see [Quick Start ](docs/Quick_Start.md ).
## Main commands
- `build` compiles and installs packages and dependencies: basically, it calls `go install` and moves executable to current path from `GOPATH` if any, the executable name is the folder name which is default by `go install` .
- `install` downloads and installs packages and dependencies: you can download packages without version control tools like git, hg, svn, etc. It downloads and installs all packages including all dependencies automatically(except when you use bundle or snapshot id). For now, this command supports `code.google.com` , `github.com` , `launchpad.net` , `bitbucket.org` .
## Todo
- Add support for downloading by tag and branch for packages in bitbucket.org, git.oschina.net, gitcafe.com.
- Command `remove` is for removing packages.
- Add gpm working principle design.
- Add support for downloading tarballs from user sources.
- After downloaded all packages in bundles or snapshots, need to check if all dependencies have been downloaded as well.
- Develop user source API server template application to support user sources in bundles.
- Add bundle and snapshot parser code for downloading by bundle or snapshot id.
- Add user system to create, edit, upload, and download bundles or snapshots through gpm client program.
- Download package from code.google.com only support hg as version control system, probably support git and svn.
- Collect download and installation results and report to users in the end.
- Command `install` add support for downloading code from git.oschina.net, gitcafe.com, *.codeplex.com;
- Command `check` is for checking and downloading all missing dependencies.
- Command `daemon` is for auto-compile web applications when debug it locally.
- Command `update` is for checking updates.
- Command `search` is for searching packages.
- Add feature "struct generator".
- i18n support for Chinese.
- Add built-in application version in order to backup data when users update.
- Command `install` add flag `-n` which only downloads source files(including LICENSE and README).
- Command `install` and `remove` and `update` backup data(up to 100 records) before executing.
- Command `rollback` is for rolling back to certain operation.
## License
[MIT-STYLE ](LICENSE ), source files that contain code that is from [gopkgdoc ](https://github.com/garyburd/gopkgdoc ) is honored in specific.
