Re: [Libguestfs] Publishing the libnbd go module

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:01 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > [Adding Matthew] > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 04:45:03PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote: > > I'm playing with libnbd go module, planning to use it in a new command[1] > > > > The biggest obstacle for me is that the module is not published in a way that > > Go developers expect. > > > > The module is listed in: > > https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/libguestfs/libnbd/golang > > > > But the module actually lives in: > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libnbd/tree/master/golang/src/libguestfs.or... > > > > So the pkg.go.dev page is broken, .e.g no there is no documation or license, and > > the suggested import is wrong. > > > > The module name is "libguestfs.org/libnbd". But if you try to use it, > > for example > > in the (improved) example from libnbd-golang.pod: > > > > $ cat test.go > > package main > > > > import "fmt" > > import "libguestfs.org/libnbd" > > > > func main() { > > h, err := libnbd.Create() > > if err != nil { > > panic(err) > > } > > defer h.Close() > > uri := "nbd://localhost" > > err = h.ConnectUri(uri) > > if err != nil { > > panic(err) > > } > > size, err := h.GetSize() > > if err != nil { > > panic(err) > > } > > fmt.Printf("size of %s = %d\n", uri, size) > > } > > > > $ go mod init example/test > > go: creating new go.mod: module example/test > > go: to add module requirements and sums: > > go mod tidy > > > > $ go mod tidy > > go: finding module for package libguestfs.org/libnbd > > example/test imports > > libguestfs.org/libnbd: cannot find module providing package > > libguestfs.org/libnbd: unrecognized import path > > "libguestfs.org/libnbd": reading > > https://libguestfs.org/libnbd?go-get=1: 404 Not Found > > That website is entirely static so if it involves fetching stuff from > there it's probably not going to work. So the import path should be: gitlab.com/libnbd/golang/src/libguestfs.org/libnbd Since gitlab (or github) already supports go tools.