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Quick Start

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Index

When and why

Lightweight version control

Unlike large version control system like git, hg, or svn, you don't have to install any version control tool for using gpm; you are still able to download and install packages that you prefer to.

Not only project, but dependencies!

With gpm, it's much easier to control dependencies version of your packages specifically. All you need to do is that indicate version either by tag, branch or commit of your dependencies, and leave rest of work to gpm!

Killer feature over go get?

  • go get gives great advantages of package installation in Go, but the only thing it's missing is version control of dependencies.
  • Every time you use go get, you may download unstable version of your package dependencies, and you may waste your time to find last version in almost unreadable commit history.
  • Not only main package, dependencies also have their dependencies, in a big project, small things like this should not waste your attention for building awesome applications.

How's configuration file looks like?

In gpm, we call bundle for this kind of files, here is an example of a bundle, don't get it? It's fine, we'll talk about it more just one second.

Installation

You can install gpm either from source or download binary.

Install from source

  • gopm is a go get able project: execute command go get github.com/GPMGo/gopm to download and install.
  • Run test: switch work directory to gopm project, and execute command go test to build and test commands automatically(for now, tested commands are gopm install, gopm remove).
  • Add gopm project path to your environment variable PATH in order to execute it in other directories.

Attention If you install from source, you can actually put binary in any path that has already existed in $PATH, so you don't need to add a new path to $PATH again.

Download binary

At this time, we recommend you install from source.

Because we don't have all kinds of operating systems, we need your help to complete following download list!(I'm just too lazy to cross compiling -_-|||)

  • darwin-386:
  • darwin-amd64:
  • freebsd-386:
  • freebsd-amd64:
  • linux-386:
  • linux-amd64:
  • windows_386:
  • windows_amd64:

Attention Because we use API to get information of packages that are hosted on github.com, but it limits 60 requests per hour, so you may get errors if you download too much(more than 50 packages per hour). We do not provider access token for security reason, but we do have configure option github_access_token in configuration file conf/gopm.toml, so you can go to here and create your personal access token(up to 5000 request per hour), and set it in gopm.toml.

Install package, or packages

Command install downloads and installs packages along with all dependencies(except when you use bundle or snapshot).

Suppose you want to install package github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test, here two ways to do it:

Install like go get

  • Execute command gpm install github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test, and you do not need to install version control tool. In case you want to, gpm install -v github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test calls go get in underlying.

Install through bundle

  • It's still not cool enough to download and install packages with import path, let's try execute command gopm install test.b, see what happens?
  • Where is the test.b comes from? We actually created a bundle for you in directory repo/bundles/, and all bundles should be put there.
  • This is how bundle works, you can open it and see what's inside, it includes import path, type, value and dependencies.
  • The test.b means the bundle whose name is test, if you want to use bundle, you have to add suffix .b. You may notice that our file name is install_test.json, why is test? Because we use bundle_name inside file, file name doesn't mean anything unless you leave bundle_name blank, then the file name becomes bundle name automatically, but be sure that all bundle file name should use JSON and suffix .json.
  • For code.google.com, launchpad.net, type is ALWAYS commit, and you can leave value blank which means up-to-date, or give it a certain value and you will download the same version of the package no matter how many times.
  • For github.com, bitbucket.org, type can be either commit, branch or tag, and give it corresponding value.
  • Now, you should have two packages which are github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test and github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test2 in your computer.

Share?

Copy and paste your bundle files to anyone else, nothing much!

Build and run it

Command build compiles and installs packages along with all dependencies.

Let's switch work directory to package github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test.

  • Execute command gopm build -r.
  • After built, you should see string Welcome to use gopm(Go Package Manager)! was printed on the screen.
  • Then, gpm calls go install in underlying, so you should have binary $GOPATH/bin/install_test, then gpm moves it to current directory.
  • Flag -r means run after built, so you saw the string was printed.

Why we do this?

In some cases like building web applications, we use relative path to access static files, and go build compiles packages without saving, so it's a shortcut for go install + go build + go run, and you don't need to compile packages again for those have not changed.

Remove package, or packages

Command remove removes packages from your local file system.

Suppose you want to remove package github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test2/subpkg.

  • Execute command gopm remove github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test2/subpkg, gopm finds this project in all paths in your GOPATH environment.
  • You may notice this is not project path, it's OK because gpm knows it, and deletes directory $GOPATH/src/github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test2/, this command delete files in $GOPATH/bin and $GOPATH/pkg as well.
  • You can also use gopm remove test.b to remove all packages are included in bundle, but we don't need here because we have one more cool stuff to try.

Use check to check dependencies

Command check checks package dependencies and installs missing ones.

Suppose you want to check package github.com/GPMGoTest/install_test.

  • Switch work directory to package path.
  • Execute command gopm check.
  • That's it!

Search and find more

Command search is for searching packages in Go Walker database.

  • Execute command gopm search mysql.
  • Try it by yourself.

Go further

  • Online full documentation is still working, I'm sorry about that.
  • Give us your feedback, these things matters.
  • Join us and get better together.
  • Contact: gpmgo.com@gmail.com.