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What is the best practice to install packages (those with go get...) in a local directory?
Example: I’d like to try out the Revel web framework, but I don’t want to clutter my go installation at /usr/local/go.
Normally I’d say sudo go get github.com/robfig/revel as written on the home page, but that would install it beneath /usr/local/go/src/pkg/....
Is there an easy way to say (for example) go get --local ... and have the package in the current (sub) directory?
You can export the env variable
GOPATH. For me it is~/local/lib/go. This folder has the subfoldersbin,pkgandsrc, so it’s just like/usr/local/go. Thego-tool will then automatically download , build and install packages into this directory.