remove vendor directory

[missinglink]

Is there still a need to vendor dependencies in with the source, with the modern go versioning can't we just rely on the git tags in go.mod for consistency?

[missinglink]

my editor decided to remove a bunch of whitespace from this file 🤷

[thisisaaronland]

I'm not sure I understand why we would remove the vendor directory since the point of it is to be able to build these tools straight from the repo (which bundles all its dependencies in vendor).

[missinglink]

It still works the same way without vendoring, the go build command downloads the modules from the internet based on the versions specified in go.{mod,sum}.

eg:

FROM golang:1.19-alpine

RUN apk update
RUN apk add git alpine-sdk

RUN git clone https://github.com/missinglink/go-whosonfirst-exportify.git /tmp/exportify
WORKDIR /tmp/exportify

RUN git checkout unvendor
RUN make cli

...

#11 [7/7] RUN make cli
#11 sha256:80cf331dcdaf4cfd43f1c5e6b90ff787bde43939add5559659411b629a73e5aa
#11 0.241 go build -o bin/wof-assign-geometry cmd/wof-assign-geometry/main.go
#11 1.276 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-export/v2 v2.4.5
#11 1.276 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/sjson v1.2.4
#11 1.276 go: downloading github.com/tidwall/gjson v1.14.1
#11 1.276 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-reader v1.0.1
#11 1.310 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-reader v1.0.1
#11 1.310 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-writer v1.0.1
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#11 1.362 go: downloading github.com/aaronland/go-roster v1.0.0
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#11 1.602 go: downloading github.com/aaronland/go-string v0.1.2
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#11 1.726 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-flags v0.4.3
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#11 1.756 go: downloading github.com/andres-erbsen/clock v0.0.0-20160526145045-9e14626cd129
#11 4.188 go build -o bin/wof-assign-parent cmd/wof-assign-parent/main.go
#11 4.206 go: downloading github.com/sfomuseum/go-flags v0.8.3
#11 4.945 go build -o bin/wof-exportify cmd/wof-exportify/main.go
#11 5.479 go build -o bin/wof-create cmd/wof-create/main.go
#11 5.494 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-spatial-hierarchy v0.1.1
#11 5.494 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-spatial-sqlite v0.5.0
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#11 5.500 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-writer/v2 v2.0.0
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#11 5.874 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-iterate/v2 v2.1.0
#11 5.875 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-sanitize v0.1.0
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#11 7.268 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-rfc-5646 v0.1.0
#11 68.20 go build -o bin/wof-deprecate cmd/wof-deprecate/main.go
#11 68.70 go build -o bin/wof-cessate cmd/wof-cessate/main.go
#11 69.17 go build -o bin/wof-superseded-by cmd/wof-superseded-by/main.go
#11 69.66 go build -o bin/wof-ensure-properties cmd/wof-ensure-properties/main.go
#11 69.68 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-iterate-reader v1.0.0
#11 70.42 go build -o bin/wof-deprecate-and-supersede cmd/wof-deprecate-and-supersede/main.go
#11 70.95 go build -o bin/wof-merge-featurecollection cmd/wof-merge-featurecollection/main.go
#11 71.45 go build -o bin/wof-supersede-with-parent cmd/wof-supersede-with-parent/main.go
#11 71.91 go build -o bin/wof-as-featurecollection cmd/wof-as-featurecollection/main.go
#11 71.93 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-writer-featurecollection v0.0.2
#11 72.40 go build -o bin/wof-as-jsonl cmd/wof-as-jsonl/main.go
#11 72.42 go: downloading github.com/whosonfirst/go-writer-jsonl v0.0.1
#11 72.92 go build -o bin/wof-rename-property cmd/wof-rename-property/main.go
#11 73.38 go build -o bin/wof-remove-properties cmd/wof-remove-properties/main.go
#11 73.88 go build -o bin/wof-clone-feature cmd/wof-clone-feature/main.go
#11 DONE 74.5s

[thisisaaronland]

Right, the point of the vendor directory is to not have to download anything from the internet. It also make debugging and development easier since vendor-ed dependencies can be tweaked directly, when necessary.