Andrew

Hi, I am experiencing a problem migrating git submodules to go mod. I figured glide could help to ease the transition. Unfortunately, many of the available mechanisms for installing glide...

How to use Go, GVM from a sudo context?

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Sometimes I need to run Go command line tools from a privileged environment. However, gvm is trickier to use with `sudo`. The best I've found so far is: ```sh $...

gvm leaves copies of unneeded files, such as source media. These can be manually removed, but for novice gvm users, it would help to provide a standard "clean" command. So...

Set -B to true by default

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First time users will find that gvm is unable to install Go, e.g. `gvm install go1.12`, with a strange error about Go being missing. Well, the whole point of gvm...

Home-brew formula

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Could gym be published to the Homebrew package manager, to make it easier install?

Could gvm be written in terms of POSIX sh? That way, more users could take advantage of this wonderful plugin! * POSIX sh users * ksh users * dash users...

Drop -V from sort when on macOS

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macOS’s sort does not support -V. As a workaround, one can probably forcibly install GNU coreutils with Homebrew, but it would be better for gvm to not depend on that.

Automatically apply a go.mod compatible version on change directory

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When the user changes directories, automatically use a compatible Go version, or else warn the user that the Go version specified in go.mod is not installed.

Convert Config back into Properties object

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Some APIs such as Apache Kafka require their configuration to be done with Properties objects. It would be nice if typesafe Config's could be converted back into Properties, e.g. to...

document more available packaging types

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The documentation claims support an an exceptionally wide variety of packaging types. However, the page listing the syntax for the types omits most of them. > fpm is a tool...