What's the correct way to install dependencies?

[protocol]

What's the correct way to install dependencies?

[mvdan]

I don't understand what you mean by "install dependencies". Like you say, commands like go test will already download whatever modules are needed and not yet in the cache.

So yeah, I would just remove this step. You could do a go mod download, but it's unnecessary, and it might also actually slow down CI. A go test ./... can be more clever and start testing some packages while others are still downloading dependencies, for example. Or maybe it doesn't actually need to download all indirectly required modules.

[marten-seemann]

I don't understand what you mean by "install dependencies". Like you say, commands like go test will already download whatever modules are needed and not yet in the cache.

The idea was to make the execution time of each step meaningful, but that would require go test to not download any dependencies. Maybe this shouldn't have been a goal to begin with though.

[mvdan]

If you don't want the downloading to generally be part of the runtime of the tests, you could always use caching :)

[marten-seemann]

The go install step was removed in #8.