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-# Go and project root
-
-Compared to other languages go has some strange behavior regarding its project
-root settings. If you import a library called `somelib`, go will look for a
-`src/somelib` folder in all of the folders in the `$GOPATH` environment
-variable. This works nicely for globally installed packages, but it makes
-encapsulating a project with a specific version, or modified version, rather
-tedious. Whenever you go to work on this project you'll have to add its path to
-your `$GOPATH`, or add the path permanently, which could break other projects
-which may use a different version of `somelib`.
-
-My solution is in the form of a simple script I'm calling go+. go+ will search
-in currrent directory and all of its parents for a file called `GOPROJROOT`. If
-it finds that file in a directory, it prepends that directory's absolute path to
-your `$GOPATH` and stops the search. Regardless of whether or not `GOPROJROOT`
-was found go+ will passthrough all arguments to the actual go call. The
-modification to `$GOPATH` will only last the duration of the call.
-
-As an example, consider the following:
-```
-/tmp
- /hello
- GOPROJROOT
- /src
- /somelib/somelib.go
- /hello.go
-```
-
-If `hello.go` depends on `somelib`, as long as you run go+ from `/tmp/hello` or
-one of its children your project will still compile
-
-Here is the source code for go+:
-
-```bash
-#!/bin/sh
-
-SEARCHING_FOR=GOPROJROOT
-ORIG_DIR=$(pwd)
-
-STOPSEARCH=0
-SEARCH_DIR=$ORIG_DIR
-while [ $STOPSEARCH = 0 ]; do
-
- RES=$( find $SEARCH_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -name $SEARCHING_FOR | \
- grep -P "$SEARCHING_FOR$" | \
- head -n1 )
-
- if [ "$RES" = "" ]; then
- if [ "$SEARCH_DIR" = "/" ]; then
- STOPSEARCH=1
- fi
- cd ..
- SEARCH_DIR=$(pwd)
- else
- export GOPATH=$SEARCH_DIR:$GOPATH
- STOPSEARCH=1
- fi
-done
-
-cd "$ORIG_DIR"
-exec go $@
-```
-
-# UPDATE: Goat
-
-I'm leaving this post for posterity, but go+ has some serious flaws in it. For
-one, it doesn't allow for specifying the version of a dependency you want to
-use. To this end, I wrote [goat][0] which does all the things go+ does, plus
-real dependency management, PLUS it is built in a way that if you've been
-following go's best-practices for code organization you shouldn't have to change
-any of your existing code AT ALL. It's cool, check it out.
-
-[0]: http://github.com/mediocregopher/goat