Go version manager, written in Go. Super simple tool to install and manage Go versions. Install go without root. Gobrew doesn't require shell rehash.
Home Page: https://medium.com/web-developer/go-version-manager-gobrew-c8750157dfe6
License: MIT License
Hello,
Today I tried to update go version. And I see a lot empty lines.
❯ gobrew use latest
[Info]: Fetching remote versions
[Info] Downloading version: 1.19.4
[Info] Downloading from: https://go.dev/dl/go1.19.4.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Downloading to: /Users/deevsyukov/.gobrew/downloads
Downloading 100% |████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| (140/140 MB, 27.660 MB/s)
[Info] Extracting from: /Users/deevsyukov/.gobrew/downloads/go1.19.4.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Extracting to: /Users/deevsyukov/.gobrew/versions/1.19.4
[Success] Untar to /Users/deevsyukov/.gobrew/versions/1.19.4
[Success] Downloaded version: 1.19.4
[Info]: Fetching remote versions
[Info] Changing go version to: 1.19.4
[Success] Changed go version to: 1.19.4
We need to investigate it. It not first time.
Hi.
If possible, it would be useful to allow command completion to gobrew. This feature is present in many environment managers. Just as an example, by typing gobrew in, it would auto complete to gobrew install <cursor-here> by hit in TAB, and another hit in TAB would list the available versions.
Environment managers from other toolchains, like pyenv for Python or SDKMAN for Java, support automatically changing the version of their respective runtimes based on a simple plain-text config file in the root folder of a project workspace (ie: .pyenv for Python, .skdmanrc for Java). It would be nice if gobrew supported something similar.
I think the way these other tools work is, they inject hooks / shims into the shell environment so that when a user performs a cd operation the tool will look in the target folder it is changing to and locates a file with a specific name. Then it parses the contents of that file, and performs the appropriate environment-switch operation / command to automatically set the runtime version to the value stored in the text file.
Suggestion
You could set up gobrew to with a similar shim, so that if a file named something like ".gobrew" exists in the folder the user is changing to, then it could parse the contents of that file and see if a GO runtime version is installed that matches the value stored in the file. If so, then it could trigger the same logic as is done by running the "gobrew use " command, substituting the value from the file for the version number.
The tool would also need to be smart enough to save the previously used GO version and restore that when the user changes out of that directory, so that the global state is restored.
In addition, the tool would need to be smart enough to detect when the user changes into a subdirectory where one of the parent dirs contains the ".gobrew" file, so that the environment doesn't switch back when the user is navigating subfolders in the same workspace / repository.
There may be one additional edge case here to consider. Unlike the way pyenv and sdkman work, I think that changing runtime environments using gobrew affects the global system, so if a new terminal session is open while navigating the file system that new terminal session would inherit the same GO version as the previously active session. Similarly, if someone were to change directories into a GO project workspace and then subsequently terminate their terminal session, any future terminal sessions that open would likely use the same GO version from that workspace rather than the default global version. So some additional functionality may need to be added to gobrew to distinguish between "temporary" GO versions, and the default / permanent one.
Issue is current path registryPath of https://golang.org/dl/ does not finish downloading as it fails due to incorrect path to the install package. Path needs to be updated to use https://go.dev/dl/ which is the updated path for downloading a version.
Does not install the correct windows package.
Do you have any plan to develop Apple Silicon compatibility?
Hello, I'm new to go so please excuse me if it is a noob question.
I've installed go via gobrew, I like it for its simplicity over other go version managers.
When I'm trying to use vsCode, it asks me to install gopls (go language server) for it to run via the command go install golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest, which has installed it in $HOME/go and the binary is located in $HOME/go/bin/gopls which is not on the $PATH. According to go install manual (go help install):
Executables are installed in the directory named by the GOBIN environment
variable, which defaults to $GOPATH/bin or $HOME/go/bin if the GOPATH
environment variable is not set. Executables in $GOROOT
are installed in $GOROOT/bin or $GOTOOLDIR instead of $GOBIN.
Since $GOPATH is not defined, it has installed the executable in $HOME/go/bin. I think go version manager should manage this aspect as well. Is this something that is planned? and where would you suggest pointing $GOPATH?
Wondering if it can also handle downloading golang beta versions ?
would be nice for smoke testing
After latest release we cannot check latest version of gobrew, and upgrade always run.
Because getGithubTags function create request only to new json-file.
Having functionality to specify arch would be great to have. Sometimes projects might be dependent on x86_64 binaries
Something like -
$ gobrew install 1.19@darwin-amd64
[Info] Downloading version: 1.19@darwin-amd64
[Info] Downloading from: https://go.dev/dl/[email protected] # FAIL
[Info]: Downloading version failed: https://go.dev/dl/[email protected] returned status code 404
[Error]: Please check connectivity to url: https://go.dev/dl/[email protected]
works first time - great work
how did it know where my GOPATH is ?
maybe it found it from the previous go install ?
curl -sLk https://git.io/gobrew | sh -Installed successfullysh: 7: [[: not found
sh: 9: [[: not found
sh: 11: [[: not found
sh: 13: [[: not found
Installed successfully[[, ]] and == are bash specific and not compatible with sh.
This can be fixed by specifying bash in the shebang #!/bin/bash but that would reduce portability.
Some POSIX compatible command alternatives are:
| Bash | POSIX |
|---|---|
[[ and ]] |
[ and ] |
== |
= |
$OSTYPE |
uname -o |
Bash regex:
if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
GOBREW_ARCH_BIN="gobrew-linux-64"POSIX case statement with glob patterns:
case $(uname -o) in
GNU/Linux*)
GOBREW_ARCH_BIN='gobrew-linux-64';;Also consider invoking sh like this: sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://git.io/gobrew)"
Hello,
Recently downloaded your tool with the hopes of back testing my app on older versions of GO. But it doesn't appear to be working on and version below 1.16
Hey pretty cool project. Wanted to contribute by nitpicking a little bit 😄
As you can see here ls-remote result is duplicated and the version numbers are listed lexicographically. Ordering of the patch releases is not important but minor releases should be ordered according the numerical/semantic/release order.
Hi sorry, there I'm a go noob. I'm installed go using gobrew and my IDE is complaining because I don't have GOROOT set. What should I set it to with this install method? Maybe some info on this could be added to the docs?
We tried to compare versions gobrew as:
if currentVersion == gb.getLatestVersion() {
utils.Infoln("[INFO] your version is already newest")
return
}but currentVersion use format as 1.6.5, not v1.6.5. Comparing was failed and we always upgrading gobrew.
We need fix this comparing.
defaultRegistryPath was changed.
It seems golang.org was changed to go.dev
eg. working url https://go.dev/dl/go1.18.7.src.tar.gz
Ref: https://go.dev/dl/#
Sorry if this is not the best way to provide feedback.
I've just installed this and its fantastic!
Works perfectly and fast and is extremely useful.
Thank you!
https://github.com/kevincobain2000/gobrew/runs/7720193596
https://github.com/kevincobain2000/gobrew/runs/7720193909
Run gobrew use dev-latest
[Info]: Fetching remote versions
panic: runtime error: index out of range [-1]
goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/kevincobain2000/gobrew.(*GoBrew).judgeVersion(0xc000020125?, {0x7ffeefbfecbb, 0xa})
/home/runner/work/gobrew/gobrew/gobrew.go:383 +0x7b4
github.com/kevincobain2000/gobrew.(*GoBrew).Install(0xc00010fef0, {0x7ffeefbfecbb?, 0xc000020318?})
/home/runner/work/gobrew/gobrew/gobrew.go:317 +0x98
main.main()
/home/runner/work/gobrew/gobrew/cmd/gobrew/main.go:60 +0xda
Error: Cannot unmarshal data: json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type []gobrew.Tag
Error: Process completed with exit code 2.
I'm unable to install gobrew on raspberry pi:
curl -sLk https://git.io/gobrew | sh -
Installing gobrew...
Please add PATH below to your ~/.bashrc manually
export PATH="$HOME/.gobrew/current/bin:$HOME/.gobrew/bin:$PATH"
uname -m
armv7l
It would be cool if this architecture was supported.
Alterntive a better matching in the bash script and an appropriate error message.
Just wanted to testdrive the new go 1.18 this morning and stumbled across a little bug in gobrew: the first "minor" versions include the .0 suffix. That's not how they are listed on https://go.dev/dl/ however. There the "patch" version is omitted for the .0 releases.
gobrew install 1.18.0
[Info] Downloading version: 1.18.0
[Info] Downloading from: https://golang.org/dl/go1.18.0.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Error]: Response status code: 404
[Info]: Please wait for the file to download.
[Success] Untar to /Users/holger/.gobrew/versions/1.18.0
[Info]: Untar failed: exit status 1
[Error]: Please check if version exists from url: https://golang.org/dl/go1.18.0.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
vs
gobrew install 1.18
[Info] Downloading version: 1.18
[Info] Downloading from: https://golang.org/dl/go1.18.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Success]: Response status code: 200
[Success] Untar to /Users/holger/.gobrew/versions/1.18
[Success] Downloaded version: 1.18
Steps to repro:
curl -sLk https://git.io/gobrew | sh -export PATH="$HOME/.gobrew/current/bin:$HOME/.gobrew/bin:$PATH"gobrew listError message:
gobrew list
==> [Error]: List versions failed: open /Users/username/.gobrew/versions: no such file or directory%
This is not at all intuitive on first run. Instead, the error message should point out that no versions have been installed so far.
[Info] Downloading version: 1.20.8
[Info] Downloading from: https://golang.org/dl/go1.20.8.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Downloading to: /Users/lbriggs/.gobrew/downloads
[Info] Downloading file go1.20.8.darwin-arm64.tar.gz from https://golang.org/dl/go1.20.8.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
0%
[Info] Download completed in 2.012692375s[Info] Extracting from: /Users/lbriggs/.gobrew/downloads/go1.20.8.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Extracting to: /Users/lbriggs/.gobrew/versions/1.20.8
[Success] Untar to /Users/lbriggs/.gobrew/versions/1.20.8
[Success] Downloaded version: 1.20.8
Obviously there's no 1.20.8 of go, so the download should fail
Hi there,
Thanks so much for putting this project together. I'm really excited to use it. I'm currently having an issue where it seems like gobrew will not actually download the binary for any version of go. I've attached a screen recording below. I installed via curl and am using an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux system. I made sure to update my $PATH
Any ideas? Thanks!
When the system color scheme is set to light, the output of gobrew is hard to read because it outputs in yellow font color. This is on a M1 Mac, but I think it will be a problem for Linux users as well. See the below screenshot:
We could try to change the color output based on system color scheme. I haven't researched how to do this in Go, but I hope this is a solved problem across different platforms 🙂
Another solution would be to make the color output configurable.
I'm happy to contribute a PR.
While installing go, getting following error in mocos:
❯ gobrew install 1.16
[Info] Downloading version: 1.16
[Info]: Downloading version failed: write /Users/mayank/.gobrew/downloads/go1.16.darwin-amd64.tar.gz: file too large
[Error]: Please check connectivity to url: https://golang.org/dl/go1.16.darwin-amd64.tar.gz
I can download the version via browser without any issue. Any tips on how to bypass this limit?
It would be great if we could change --using an environment variable-- the default .gobrew directory.
It is placed in $HOME by default, but that's not XDG compliant (I want it to be ~/.local/share/gobrew/ just like what I do with pyenv, volta and vagrant).
With pyenv this is done using PYENV_ROOT environment variable.
Go 1.21.0 has been released, with the version number being 1.21.0 instead of 1.21. When using gobrew to install the version, it trims the ".0" at the end of the version number. Consequently, accessing https://go.dev/dl/go1.21.darwin-amd64.tar.gz will result in a 404 error since the file does not exist.
BTW, gobrew is a really coooooool tool, thank you~
We need to support PROXY in our requests.
Lines 463 to 466 in 3d7561d
gobrew self-update
Downloads the update and then produces the following error message:
[Error] Cannot open file /home/paul/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: text file busy
Happening on multiple linux machines and in Windows WSL
Hi.
I have been trying to install go1.14 to work on a legacy project, but it seems gobrew can't install it in macOS Monterey 12.5.1 (M!).
Please check the go1.19 in this log below, it is from system, but notice gobrew can't switch to go1.14 and remains allowing to install go1.14 two or more times:
~ % gobrew use 1.14
[Info] Downloading version: 1.14
[Info] Downloading from: https://golang.org/dl/go1.14.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Downloading to: ~/.gobrew/downloads
Downloading 100% |████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| (1.4/1.4 kB, 3.331 MB/s)
[Info] Extracting from: ~/.gobrew/downloads/go1.14.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Extracting to: ~/.gobrew/versions/1.14
[Success] Untar to ~/.gobrew/versions/1.14
[Success] Downloaded version: 1.14
[Info] Changing go version to: 1.14
[Success] Changed go version to: 1.14
~ % go version
go version go1.19 darwin/arm64
~ % gobrew use 1.14
[Info] Downloading version: 1.14
[Info] Downloading from: https://golang.org/dl/go1.14.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Downloading to: ~/.gobrew/downloads
Downloading 100% |████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| (1.4/1.4 kB, 3.476 MB/s)
[Info] Extracting from: ~/.gobrew/downloads/go1.14.darwin-arm64.tar.gz
[Info] Extracting to: ~/.gobrew/versions/1.14
[Success] Untar to ~/.gobrew/versions/1.14
[Success] Downloaded version: 1.14
[Info] Changing go version to: 1.14
[Success] Changed go version to: 1.14
~ % go version
go version go1.19 darwin/arm64
~ % tree .gobrew
.gobrew
├── current
│ ├── bin -> ~/.gobrew/versions/1.14/go/bin
│ └── go -> ~/.gobrew/versions/1.14/go
└── versions
└── 1.14
└── unknown-pack
I think the steps on how to uninstall gobrew from your system is missing in the README.
If official go version installed first, and want use gobrew to change to another version, then the GOROOT path won't changed.
Step to reproduce:
gobrew use 1.18go env | grep GOROOT can see the GOROOT won't changed.Suggestion:
When encountered this case, maybe gobrew can give user a notice to set GOROOT manually?
Delete all installed versions except current
10:28:48 ❯ gobrew self-update
Downloading 100% |████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| (5.6/5.6 MB, 16.459 MB/s)
Upgrade successful
10:28:56 ❯ gobrew
zsh: killed gobrew
after self-update gobrew do not work.
~ ❯ curl -sLk https://git.io/gobrew | sh - ✔ 2|0 at 10:49:22
Using gobrew version latest
Installed successfully to: /Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew
============================
: command not foundw/bin/gobrew: line 1:
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 2: html: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 3: head: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 4: meta: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 5: title: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 5: middot: command not found
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 5: /title: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 6: meta: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 7: style: No such file or directory
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 8: body: command not found
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 9: background-color:: command not found
/Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `('
'Users/jorde/.gobrew/bin/gobrew: line 10: ` color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
============================
***Please add PATH below to your ~/.bashrc manually***
export PATH="$HOME/.gobrew/current/bin:$HOME/.gobrew/bin:$PATH"Installation via Go works fine, but installs to the GOBIN path (default being $HOME/go/bin)
Which results in gobrew being unable to run most commands as it expects the $HOME/.gobrew folder to be the correct directory.
First time diving into Go, so maybe I'm missing something that's obvious to seasoned Go devs.
Since it replaces the binary, in order to install the new binary the old binary needs to be deleted completely.
╭─pulkit.kathuria@JP- ~/git/gobrew ‹master›
╰─$ gobrew self-update
Downloading 100% |███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| (5.6/5.6 MB, 9.119 MB/s)
Upgrade successful
╭─pulkit.kathuria@JP- ~/git/gobrew ‹master›
╰─$ gobrew version
[1] 57080 killed gobrew version
When golang will update we have errors in our test files.
We need to use test files without this errors. How? I dont know in this time.
Previously when running gobrew self-update the tool would check for updates and if found would update the tool, otherwise it would report no update available and that you are already up to date.
Currently when running the above command the tool always seems to download and report 'Upgrade successful' even though no new version has been posted.
Can you please investigate?
Expected behaviour is to run this command and if an update is available then download and upgrade, otherwise do not download approx 6Mb unnecessarily.
Kind regards
When inside restricted networks like inside enterprise, the 'golang.org' may not be accessible, so there's a need to override the registryPath like from env.
ref: #85
we use fatih/color library for output, but in my terminal I dont see colors. :)
and my opinion, we should simplify our output.
For example, switch to zap for our output?
This issue just my opinion and thoughts out loud.
We can discuss and decide what to do in the future, leave everything as it is, or try something else.
This issue appears to have re-surfaced.
$ gobrew ls-remote
[Info]: Fetching remote versions
1 1.0.1 1.0.2 1.0.3
1.1 1.1.0 1.1.1 1.1.2
1.2 1.2.0 1.2.1 1.2.2
1.3 1.3.0 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.3
1.4 1.4.0 1.4.1 1.4.2 1.4.3
1.5 1.5.0 1.5.1 1.5.2 1.5.3 1.5.4
1.6 1.6.0 1.6.1 1.6.2 1.6.3 1.6.4
1.7 1.7.0 1.7.1 1.7.2 1.7.3 1.7.4 1.7.5 1.7.6
1.8 1.8.0 1.8.1 1.8.2 1.8.3 1.8.4 1.8.5 1.8.6 1.8.7
1.9 1.9.0 1.9.1 1.9.2 1.9.3 1.9.4 1.9.5 1.9.6 1.9.7
1.10 1.10.0 1.10.1 1.10.2 1.10.3 1.10.4 1.10.5 1.10.6 1.10.7 1.10.8
1.11 1.11.0 1.11.1 1.11.2 1.11.3 1.11.4 1.11.5 1.11.6 1.11.7 1.11.8 1.11.9 1.11.10 1.11.11 1.11.12 1.11.13
1.12 1.12.0 1.12.1 1.12.2 1.12.3 1.12.4 1.12.5 1.12.6 1.12.7 1.12.8 1.12.9 1.12.10 1.12.11 1.12.12 1.12.13 1.12.14 1.12.15 1.12.16 1.12.17
1.13 1.13.0 1.13.1 1.13.2 1.13.3 1.13.4 1.13.5 1.13.6 1.13.7 1.13.8 1.13.9 1.13.10 1.13.11 1.13.12 1.13.13 1.13.14 1.13.15
1.14 1.14.0 1.14.1 1.14.2 1.14.3 1.14.4 1.14.5 1.14.6 1.14.7 1.14.8 1.14.9 1.14.10 1.14.11 1.14.12 1.14.13 1.14.14 1.14.15
1.15 1.15.0 1.15.1 1.15.2 1.15.3 1.15.4 1.15.5 1.15.6 1.15.7 1.15.8 1.15.9 1.15.10 1.15.11 1.15.12 1.15.13 1.15.14 1.15.15
1.16 1.16.0 1.16.1 1.16.2 1.16.3 1.16.4 1.16.5 1.16.6 1.16.7
1.17
$ gobrew install 1.16.7
[Info] Downloading version: 1.16.7
[Success] Untar to /home/miguel/.gobrew/versions/1.16.7
[Info]: Untar failed: exit status 2
[Error]: Please check if version exists from url: https://golang.org/dl/go1.16.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
First I need to thank you for such a simple version manager. I could never understand why people wouldn't use golang to build a version manager to itself. Instead, most alternatives use bash scripts for some reason 🤔 .
As the time of writing, the url https://golang.org/dl/go1.16.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz returns 404 but the release does exist in Github. Any reason why not to use Github releases? Cheers!
~/Projects/Github
14:26:40 ❯ git clone [email protected]:kevincobain2000/gobrew.git
Cloning into 'gobrew'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 597, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (223/223), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (105/105), done.
remote: Total 597 (delta 109), reused 186 (delta 94), pack-reused 374
Receiving objects: 100% (597/597), 270.40 MiB | 3.64 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (288/288), done.
~/Projects/Github
14:28:03 ❯ du -sh gobrew
311M gobrewRepository contains binary files for all systems and all versions. In this time it 311M. Its a lot.
We need to move binary files to Github Releases. And provide path for downloads binary files.
Fo example we can download binary file from latest release:
https://github.com/juev/starred/releases/latest/download/starred_0.0.5_Darwin_arm64.tar.gzWe can use shell script with this function for download latest release, for example:
https://gist.github.com/jpillora/5a7da6a297d2b6c33d04
This example contains version in binary file. But we can provide files without it.
Should we use tar for storing binary files? Good question. All operation systems contains tar. And we can use binary files with one name, and many tars with different names. For example, all executable files named as: gobrew, but tar archives as: gobrew-macos-64.tar.gz
We can install manually from release page. Just download latest release, unpack it, move to PATH. But we can provide shell script, which can do it automatically. And we can create homebrew formula for installing gobrew on macOS. We have many options for it.
For example: Hugo, contains many options for installation.
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