brew-go

Manage Go tools via Homebrew. Don't clutter your $GOPATH anymore.

Internally brew-go still relies on go get, but puts things into /usr/local/Cellar/brew-go-*, builds the binary, removes everything else that was needed for building, and links the binary to /usr/local/bin/*. All in one go.

The gem was inspired by this blog post.

Installation

$ gem install brew-go

If you're not a Ruby user, chances are that you use the system's /usr/bin/gem, which tries installing to a directory that isn't writable by the user. Assuming you have a local bin directory in $PATH, e.g. ~/bin, use this instead:

$ gem install --user-install -n ~/bin brew-go

Alternatively, just download the script in any directory from $PATH and make it executable.

Usage

See brew go for all available commands.

Example:

$ brew go get guru golang.org/x/perf/cmd/benchstat
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