Impossible to pin version (and install afterwards) via "tools.go trick"

[vdobler]

We'd like to pin all our development tooling via the standard tools.go trick.
Unfortunately cmd/atlas seems to be deliberately set up to disallow pinning its
version via go get ariga.io/atlas/cmd/atlas@v0.17.0and installing it afterwards
via go install ariga.io/atlas/cmd/atlas. This is a major inconvenience for us
without any obvious underlying technical reason.

Could you just allow this normal and standard way of installing a tagged and
thus released version? We understand that you would like to have us download
your prepacked release via https://atlasgo.sh but this requires extra tooling and
extra network connectivity.

[a8m]

Hey @vdobler 👋

Thank you for your feedback. However, we no longer maintain the cmd/atlas package as an executable - mainly for technical and time reasons. Atlas is used by various programming languages, like Python and Java, and the binary we distribute includes additional capabilities.

This is a major inconvenience for us without any obvious underlying technical reason.

Our cmd/atlas package uses replace to avoid adding all cmd/atlas dependencies for projects that use the root package - ariga.io/atlas (e.g., entgo.io). There's no way to go get such packages - we previously used go.work for this purpose, but it introduced different pains, and I decided to remove it.

[a8m]

Closing, but feel free to join our Discord and send me a message in case you need additional help with this 🙏