Go Manager

A minimalist approach to managing multiple Go installations. Inspired by chruby and ruby-install.

What it does

• Lets you easily install, uninstall and switch between different versions of Go.
• Sets the necessary environment variables to start using the Go toolchain.

What it doesn't do

Everything else.

There are no new concepts to learn. No pkgsets, environments, none of that.

What isn't done yet

• automatically load the Go version saved in .go-version, if such a file exists.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/ocrampete16/go-manager.git ~/.go-manager
echo "source ~/.go-manager/go-manager.sh" >> ~/.bashrc

If you use zsh, you'd run echo "source ~/.go-manager/go-manager.sh" >> ~/.zshrc instead.

Usage

All commands follow a certain scheme: go-manager <command> [<flags>] [<arguments>]

Installing Go

# installs the latest available version
go-manager install latest

# installs version 1.6.2
go-manager install 1.6.2

Listing Go installations

# lists all Go versions installed on your computer
go-manager list installed

# lists all Go versions available for download
go-manager list available

# the same as running `go-manager list installed`
go-manager list

Using Go

# use version 1.6.2 for this terminal session
go-manager use 1.6.2

# always use version 1.6.2 by default
go-manager use --default 1.6.2

Uninstalling Go

# uninstalls the version of Go you're currently using
go-manager uninstall

# uninstalls version 1.6.2
go-manager uninstall 1.6.2