Installed binary contains version number in name

[HaraldNordgren]

Running

go get -u gopkg.in/alecthomas/gometalinter.v1

I get an installed binary called gometalinter.v1. I would expect to simple call a binary called gometalinter directly, but that does not work.

Is that something that can be fixed in gopkg? Or is this dependent on logic within go get?

[niemeyer]

It's in go get, but you can workaround this by using a subpath.

[HaraldNordgren]

@niemeyer Can you give an example of what that looks like, please?

[niemeyer]

@HaraldNordgren Ah, sorry that it wasn't clear. It should work the same as when you're using any other import paths: example.com/foo.v1/bar

[HaraldNordgren]

I don't quite remember why I needed this back in 2018, but I think my intention wash to be able to run the binary as ./gometalinter and instead it would need to be run as ./gometalinter.v1.

But maybe that's not accurate though?

[niemeyer]

Yeah, that's what was explained above. It gets its name from the last element of its own path.