This page contains a list of tools for managing Go packages and their dependencies. The tools are divided into categories based on their approach to version management.
As of June 19th, 2015, the Go toolchain includes an experimental vendoring flag, GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT. This is now part of the Go 1.5 release and represents the Go team's recommended approach to vendoring dependencies. You can read more about how this environment variable works in the Go 1.5 documentation and the original design document. For a more detailed explanation, check out this post by @freeformz or this short explainer from Engineered Web.
Tools supporting this feature include:
Copy packages locally. When building modify the GOPATH or use the GO 1.5 GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT to reference the local package store. Not only records specific version, but also fetches specific version.
| glide | https://github.com/Masterminds/glide |
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| Title | Lightweight Vendor Package Manager |
| Author | Matt Butcher and Matt Farina |
| Categories | Retrieve and manage packages in your vendor/ directory using the GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT. |
| gopm | https://github.com/GPMGo/gopm |
| Title | Tool for search, install, update, share packages in Go |
| Author | Am Laher |
| Categories | Revision Locking (git, mercurial, bazaar). Copies into “.vendor/src”. |
| gom | https://github.com/mattn/gom |
| Title | Go Manager - bundle for go |
| Author | Yasuhiro Matsumoto |
| Categories | Vendoring/Bundling. Copies into “_vendor/src” |
| bunch | https://github.com/dkulchenko/bunch |
| Title | npm-like tool for managing Go dependencies |
| Author | Daniil Kulchenko |
| Categories | Vendoring/Bundling/Revision Locking. Copies into “.vendor”. Does NOT fully support windows. |
| goop | https://github.com/nitrous-io/goop |
| Title | A dependency manager for Go (golang), inspired by Bundler. |
| Author | Nitrous.IO |
| Categories | Vendoring, Revision Locking. Copies into “.vendor/src”. Does NOT fully support windows. |
| govend | https://github.com/gophersaurus/govend |
| Title | A simple tool to vendor dependencies |
| Author | Jack Spirou |
| Categories | Vendor and lock revisions of packages in vendor/ via the GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT. |
Copy packages locally. When building modify the GOPATH to reference the local package store.
| godep | https://github.com/tools/godep |
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| Title | Helps build packages reproducibly by fixing their dependencies |
| Author | Keith Rarick |
| Categories | Vendoring, Version Recording. Copies into “Godep/_workspace/src”. |
| wgo | https://github.com/skelterjohn/wgo |
| Title | Managed workspaces on top of the go tool |
| Author | John Asmuth |
| Categories | local GOPATH can be configured. |
| gb | http://getgb.io/ |
| Title | Project-based workspaces and dependency management |
| Author | Dave Cheney |
| Categories | Project-based workspaces, vendoring, version locking. Manages dependencies in /vendor/src |
Package source control versions are recorded. Versions are updated into the GOPATH package tree. Requires switching GOPATH for every project.
| glock | https://github.com/robfig/glock |
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| Title | Lock dependencies to specific revisions. |
| Author | Rob Figueiredo |
| Categories | Revision Locking (git) |
| gobs | https://bitbucket.org/vegansk/gobs |
| Title | Build system and package manager for go language |
| Author | Anatoly Galiulin |
| Categories | Revision Locking (git). Requires bash, no Windows support. |
| godeps | https://launchpad.net/godeps |
| Title | Print, fetch and update dependencies with care. In production use by Canonical. The first tool with this name! |
| Author | Roger Peppe |
| Categories | Revision Locking (git, mercurial, bzr) |
| gopack | https://github.com/d2fn/gopack |
| Title | Dependency management for go inspired by rebar |
| Author | Dietrich Featherston |
| Categories | Revision Locking (git) |
| gopin | https://github.com/laher/gopin |
| Title | Experimental go-get fork with support for tags and alternative repos |
| Author | Go Package Manager |
| Categories | Revision Locking (git) |
| gigo | https://github.com/LyricalSecurity/gigo |
| Title | Helps provide go get support for private repositories, pip for golang |
| Author | Lyrical Security |
| Categories | Vendoring, Revision Locking (git). Does not appear to copy files. |
Vendoring with import path rewriting takes the 3rd party source code that is referenced in your project and makes a copy of that code inside a new folder within the project. It re-writes the import paths so there is a single copy of all packages. GOPATH is not modified at any time.
| party | https://github.com/mjibson/party |
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| Author | Matt Jibson |
| Categories | Vendoring, Copies into “_third_party”. Does not analyze dependencies first. No inspection. |
| govendor | https://github.com/kardianos/govendor |
| Title | Copy, re-write, and list dependent package status. |
| Author | Daniel Theophanes |
| Categories | Pkg Copy,Import rewrite, record VCS version. Copies into “internal” or “vendor”. |
| vendorize | https://github.com/kisielk/vendorize |
| Author | Kamil Kisiel |
| Categories | Vendoring. Copies into “3rdparty”. |
| nut | https://github.com/jingweno/nut |
| Author | Jingwen Owen Ou |
| Categories | Pkg Copy & Import rewrite. Copies into “vendor”. |
Not full vendor tool, but may still provide value.
| prewrite | https://github.com/dmitris/prewrite |
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| Author | Dmitry Savintsev |
| Categories | Import re-writer, add or remove specified prefix |
Import Proxies act as a man in the middle between the Go tool and the VCS. It parses the data stream while the repository is being cloned.
| gopkg.in | https://gopkg.in |
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| Title | Redirect the go tool onto well defined GitHub repositories. Versioning with tags and branches or the repository name. |
| Author | Gustavo Niemeyer |
| Categories | Import Proxy (GitHub) |
Go Version Managers allow you to have multiple versions of Go installed on your machine. It allows you to switch between those versions.
| goenv | https://bitbucket.org/ymotongpoo/goenv |
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| Title | Go environment manager |
| Author | Yoshifumi YAMAGUCHI |
| Categories | Go Version Manager |
Here is a list of packages that authors can use to test their tools against.
| beego-mgo | https://github.com/goinggo/beego-mgo |
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| Author | Bill Kennedy |
| Desc | Sample Application For Using the Beego web framework with MGO |
| revel-mgo | https://github.com/goinggo/revel-mgo |
| Author | Bill Kennedy |
| Desc | Sample revel project with mgo support |
These tools are recorded for completeness, but it is suggested not to use them as they are platform specific.