location of .godeps folder

[tcurdt]

Maybe a little esoteric for most people - but I am trying to build a go project on a read-only filesystem.
Would be great to have command line option to change the location of the .godeps folder.

[tcurdt]

Would you accept a pull request for this?

[pote]

Good question, I think I would since the implementation would be simple: I can imagine a use case like source gvp in .other_directory, if you feel like implementing it I think I'll merge it right away.

The thing is: my use case for gvp is now usually solved by simply using export and source

$ export GOPATH="$PWD"/.godeps:"$PWD"

In most cases I don't even do that much and instead just put that same line in the .env file for my projects, and then run source .env to load the GOPATH and any other env variables my app uses.

Maybe this means I'm not the best person to maintain gvp anymore, since I really barely use it, I'll have to think about that.

[tcurdt]

Actually I didn't realize it's that simple. Seems like I can just do

$ export GOPATH="/tmp/godeps:$PWD"

and be done with it. That indeed questions the need of gvp.
And I am not a big fan sourcein anyway.
I think I prefer the explicit export as well.

[pote]

Exactly, gvp was written before I started working in that way, but these days I use it only very ocasionally, hence the little effort in improving the tool. :)

[langston-barrett]

@tcurdt Are you still interested in this feature? Should this issue be closed?

[tcurdt]

I think this should just be properly documented - but for me I am happy to close this issue.

[langston-barrett]

@tcurdt It would be awesome if you'd like to submit a PR for documentation.