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Maybe not Maybe not
* [Erlang, tcp sockets, and active true](erlang-tcp-socket-pull-pattern.md) (originally posted March 9, 2013) * [Erlang, tcp sockets, and active true](erlang-tcp-socket-pull-pattern.md) (originally posted March 9, 2013)
* [go+](goplus.md) (originally posted July 11, 2013)
That's all folks! That's all folks!

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# Go and project root
Compared to other languages go has some strange behavior regarding its project root settings. If you
import a library called `somelib`, go will look for a `src/somelib` folder in all of the folders in
the `$GOPATH` environment variable. This works nicely for globally installed packages, but it makes
encapsulating a project with a specific version, or modified version, rather tedious. Whenever you go
to work on this project you'll have to add its path to your `$GOPATH`, or add the path permanently,
which could break other projects which may use a different version of `somelib`.
My solution is in the form of a simple script I'm calling go+. go+ will search in currrent directory
and all of its parents for a file called `GOPROJROOT`. If it finds that file in a directory, it
prepends that directory's absolute path to your `$GOPATH` and stops the search. Regardless of whether
or not `GOPROJROOT` was found go+ will passthrough all arguments to the actual go call. The
modification to `$GOPATH` will only last the duration of the call.
As an example, consider the following:
```
/tmp
/hello
GOPROJROOT
/src
/somelib/somelib.go
/hello.go
```
If `hello.go` depends on `somelib`, as long as you run go+ from `/tmp/hello` or one of its children
your project will still compile
Here is the source code for go+:
```bash
#!/bin/sh
SEARCHING_FOR=GOPROJROOT
ORIG_DIR=$(pwd)
STOPSEARCH=0
SEARCH_DIR=$ORIG_DIR
while [ $STOPSEARCH = 0 ]; do
RES=$( find $SEARCH_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -name $SEARCHING_FOR | \
grep -P "$SEARCHING_FOR$" | \
head -n1 )
if [ "$RES" = "" ]; then
if [ "$SEARCH_DIR" = "/" ]; then
STOPSEARCH=1
fi
cd ..
SEARCH_DIR=$(pwd)
else
export GOPATH=$SEARCH_DIR:$GOPATH
STOPSEARCH=1
fi
done
cd "$ORIG_DIR"
exec go $@
```

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#!/bin/sh
SEARCHING_FOR=GOPROJROOT
ORIG_DIR=$(pwd)
STOPSEARCH=0
SEARCH_DIR=$ORIG_DIR
while [ $STOPSEARCH = 0 ]; do
RES=$( find $SEARCH_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -name $SEARCHING_FOR | \
grep -P "$SEARCHING_FOR$" | \
head -n1 )
if [ "$RES" = "" ]; then
if [ "$SEARCH_DIR" = "/" ]; then
STOPSEARCH=1
fi
cd ..
SEARCH_DIR=$(pwd)
else
export GOPATH=$SEARCH_DIR:$GOPATH
STOPSEARCH=1
fi
done
cd "$ORIG_DIR"
exec go $@