Re:'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
by lclarkmichalek on Saturday August 11, 2018 @07:11AM
(#17739233)
`go mod download` is for explicitly populating the cache. If you just run `go build`, the cache will be implicitly populated. You don't need to run `go mod download` before doing a build.
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Re:'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
by llimllib on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:08AM
(#17739370)
Here’s the issue it comes out of: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610
Re:'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
by chx on Saturday August 11, 2018 @03:18PM
(#17741101)
Wait, so this command was born out of necessity to get dep feature parity? This just gets better and better.
Re:'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
by bketelsen on Saturday August 11, 2018 @06:01PM
(#17741803)
no it was added at the request of the athens project (github.com/gomods/athens) so there would be a canonical way to download modules that we could use to prime the cache.
Re:'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added
by sgnnseven on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:10PM
(#17744975)
Categorically wrong - please don't spread lies.
I opened the original issue in question due to lack of feature parity and it got quickly closed (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610#event-1753880630). Then after some twitter back-and-forth (https://twitter.com/sgnn7/status/1022547467466956802) the issue got reopened.