godeps plugin enhancement... maybe?

[Simon Fels]

On 09.08.2016 07:46, Ian Booth wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Firstly, thanks for the recent godeps plugin.
> 
> I'd like to be able to control where the git checkout goes, or better just snap
> from source. When the pull step runs, it places all the source into
> <snapcraft-dir>/parts/juju/go/src
> 
> It takes a loooong time to checkout everything and then run godeps, especially
> when godeps runs to pull all the dependencies one by one.
> 
> I'd love to be able to have the plugin be able to use an existing source tree in
> my gopath which I have checked out and already pulled dependencies for (ie the
> place where I work with my IDE). That way my workflow could be to hack on my
> code locally, and then build the snap directly from source on disk; godeps will
> just skip over almost all the dependencies since they already exist.
> 
> I can see that snapcraft supports source types of git, bzr, hg, svn, tar, or zip.
> I really want a source type of "file" and I give it a directory like
> ~/projects/juju/go/src

You could just specify:

 source: .

to build from the same directory the snapcraft.yaml file is in or
specify another dir like

 source: /home/ubuntu/my-source-checkout

But not really sure if that works for Go as well and if the GOPATH is
correctly setup.

regards,
Simon

> The above would be used in lieu of <snapcraft-dir>/parts/juju/go/src
> 
> By having a source type of "file", the git pull step would not be required and
> my local development workflow would be much better and faster - hack in my IDE,
> build snap, test etc.
> 
> Is there a way to do that now that I am not aware of, or is this a "patches
> accepted" thing?
>