'go get' installation process fails - is deprecated in go

[therealbenturnbull]

Running the installation command go get github.com/edgedb/edgedb-goon a clean system does not work.

It produces the following error:

'go get' is no longer supported outside a module.
go: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory.
	'go get' is no longer supported outside a module.
	To build and install a command, use 'go install' with a version,
	like 'go install example.com/cmd@latest'
	For more information, see https://golang.org/doc/go-get-install-deprecation
	or run 'go help get' or 'go help install'.

go version produces the following:
go version go1.18.4 darwin/arm64

Googling says the following:
Starting in Go 1.17, installing executables with go get is deprecated. go install may be used instead. In Go 1.18, go get will no longer build packages; it will only be used to add, update, or remove dependencies in go. mod . Specifically, go get will always act as if the -d flag were enabled.

I might be missing something, but I can't get go install to work with the obvious solutions.

Can the documentation please be updated to help people new to Go?

[fmoor]

Thanks for sharing your experience! This is helpful.

Ok so go install is for installing programs that you would use in your command line. However github.com/edgedb/edgedb-go is not a program. It is a library. To use it in your project you first have to initialize the go project (module) with

go mod init github.com/therealbentrunbull/my-project

Then in the directory where you ran go mod init you can run

go get github.com/edgedb/edgedb-go

Which adds it as a dependency to your module.

I'll add something to the docs about this.

[therealbenturnbull]

That's great! Thanks!
It will help people (like me) who are still new to this.