Publishing and using go module from tarball?

[volf....@gmail.com]

Greetings,

I would like to ask if it is possible to publish go module using tarball and
later on somehow use it. All examples I was able are about using go modules
from some git repository. However, what I would like to do is publish tarball
same way as I would do for C projects (`make dist`) and later on use that from
another go project.

I have no problem to write the `make dist` target, I'm using makefiles already,
publishing the source code is also easy part
(http://example.org/project-1.0.0.tar.xz), but I have no idea how can I import
something like that.

I was trying to find some resources on this but to no avail. So, is this
something that is possible or am I required to use git (or other VCS) for go
projects?

Thank you for any guidance on this topic.

W.

PS: I don't care about hiding the source code, so binary modules and plugins
are probably not what am I looking for.

[wgr]

On 2020-01-04 15:54, volf....@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to ask if it is possible to publish go module using tarball and
> later on somehow use it. All examples I was able are about using go modules
> from some git repository. However, what I would like to do is publish
> tarball

Would `go mod vendor` then building with `go build -mod=vendor` or
`GOFLAGS=-mod=vendor go build` work for you?

[Amnon Baron Cohen]

If you are happy publishing a zip archive rather than a tarball,
then you can server the module download protocol directly.
See https://research.swtch.com/vgo-module#download_protocol

On Sunday, 5 January 2020 05:11:32 UTC, wgr wrote:

[volf....@gmail.com]

On Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 11:02:52 AM UTC, Amnon Baron Cohen wrote:
> If you are happy publishing a zip archive rather than a tarball,
> then you can server the module download protocol directly.

> See https://research.swtch.com/vgo-module#download_protocol

That definitely looks interesting and I will try to find some time to look into it

deeper, however testing it locally seems much more difficult then it really

should have been. Go modules tooling does not seem to support http at

all and as for the https I did not find any way to allow use of self-signed

certificate...

But still, it looks like it might be possible so thanks again, I will try to

twist it to work for my use-case.

Thanks :)

W.

[Amnon Baron Cohen]

> Go modules tooling does not seem to support http at

> all and as for the https I did not find any way to allow use of self-signed

> certificate...

In Go 1.14 (available as in beta) you can set the GOINSECURE env var to allow http download.
https://tip.golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Environment_variables

[Bryan C. Mills]

See also the golang.org/x/mod/zip package.