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Interestingly, the very first thing I've read, that is the environment setup contains instructions that I was told are incorrect by Golang people - one should n
by tachion 10y ago
Interestingly, the very first thing I've read, that is the environment setup contains instructions that I was told are incorrect by Golang people - one should not use brew to install Golang on macs, one should download the official package. The brew installation, for example, lacks the offline tour package, and who knows what else.
- fnord123 10y agoThe brew formula is here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/go.rb https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... url "https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.8.src.tar.gz" mirror "https://fossies.org/linux/misc/go1.8.src.tar.gz" version "1.8" sha256 "406865f587b44be7092f206d73fc1de252600b79b3cacc587b74b5ef5c623596" This checksum matches the one on the official download page: https://golang.org/dl/ https://golang.org/dl/ 406865f587b44be7092f206d73fc1de252600b79b3cacc587b74b5ef5c623596 The Golang people could save a lot of headaches and fix whatever they see wrong in the formula so people can continue to use their package manager instead of being reduced to Windows style savagery. Edit: looks like someone indeed tried to make an issue: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/9272 https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/9272 If I understand, the Go team made the binary package install stuff not in the source tarball. That's doesn't sound like a good idea but they're some smart people; I'm sure they have some reasons. T'woud be nice if they helped bring brew in-line as well.
- sagichmal 10y agoHomebrew is a perfectly acceptable, even preferred way to install Go on Macs. Who has told you otherwise? They are wrong, or are speaking from a very specific context.