gohack undo leaves trailing newlines

[rogpeppe]

gohack undo leaves trailing newlines

[dolmen]

There is a reason why the Go team doesn't provides a package to edit go.mod: the official go.mod editing API is go mod edit.

So gohack should just use go mod edit commands instead of editing the file itself.

[mvdan]

Beware that gohack came out very early in the timeline of modules, before tools like go mod edit were fully developed.

Also, note that there is in fact a package to parse and print go.mod files: https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/mod/modfile

[dolmen]

The fact is that you have to keep in sync the version of your Go toolchain with any other tools that have go.mod editing capabilities.

For gohack to maintain compability with Go toolchain upgrades:

• the gohack maintainers have to keep to go.mod editing editing in sync with the toolchain (and that doesn't happen: the fact that github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal/modfile hasn't been updated for 2 years just shows that doesn't work)
• the end user has to update gohack when (s)he updates the toolchain with a gohack that has upgraded its go.mod support.

That isn't sustainable.

golang.org/x/mod/modfile can help to solve the first point (but that would still require that the gohack maintainers to upgrade the dependency in case of a new go.mod format change), but that will never fix the second point.

So go mod edit is the only sustainable way.