cmd/go: auto-find module from package import

[fwhezfwhez]

In my company, There're many packages local and saved in restricted git repo.

To import those pkgs, I'm doing like :

package main

import (
    "xxx"
)

Desperately xxx module not found. Even if I've already put xxx into $GOPATH/pkg/mod/xxx.

To fix this ,I must type

requires xxx
replace xxx ../../pkg/mod/xxx

It seems estremely bad and extra. Because once I put my projects not in GOPATH/src, the replace will changed to ../../../../path-togopath/pkg/mod/xxx. Also it doesnt support 'replace xxx $GOPATH/pkg/mod/xxx'.

Suggest full path or from root?

No, because a repo will be developed by all kinds of os, besides, remote machie and local machine might have different root format.

Thus, I hope gomodule can support auto-find pkg. It seems easy realized just like GOPATH.

• first, make sure xxx pkg is at GOPATH/pkg/mod/xxx
• import xxx

Just throw 'replace' and 'require' away on this case!

[toothrot]

It seems like this would be non-deterministic if two packages have the same name.

/cc @bcmills @jayconrod @matloob

[jayconrod]

This is probably not feasible. The module cache ($GOPATH/pkg/mod) should not be modified manually, and the go command shouldn't look anywhere else for imported packages.

Is there a reason you can't use one of the workflows for private repositories described in Private modules? In most cases, you'd name your module after the repository URL (like github.com/corp/mod or corp.example.com/mod.git), then set GOPRIVATE=git.com/corp or GOPRIVATE=corp.example.com).