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> "If the environment variable $GOROOT is unset, the go tool previously used the default GOROOT set during toolchain compilation. Now, before falling back to th

> "If the environment variable $GOROOT is unset, the go tool previously used the default GOROOT set during toolchain compilation. Now, before falling back to that default, the go tool attempts to deduce GOROOT from its own executable path. This allows binary distributions to be unpacked anywhere in the file system and then be used without setting GOROOT explicitly." At last! Yes!

sigjuice 9y ago
IMHO, all programs ought to behave like this and be self-contained within a directory.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Standard practice back in the MS-DOS days, what Microsoft now calls xcopy deploy, because that is how we used to do it.