gobase is intended as a base package of simple unix-like utilities, similar to GNU coreutils and sbase from suckless.org. These tools are generally inspired by sbase and aim to be as simple as possible, not to provide a replacement for GNU coreutils or any other production-quality set of utilities.
The applications are not thoroughly tested and may or may not work. They are not expected to be useful when compared to the many more mature and complete implementations available.
All code is licensed under the 2-clause FreeBSD license (see file: LICENSE).
- Go compiler and tools
- Ruby
- rubygems
- gem install bundler
You will need an installation of the Go compiler and tools. The website has some documentation on how to get that set up. If you can build a hello world program, you should be able to build gobase.
Ruby and cucumber are used for integration testing of the binary applications.
gobase has been built against go 1.0 and 1.1. No major problems have been found so far.
There are no dependencies outside of the go standard library.
All the build steps are automated in the Makefile (Unix-like only). A simple build script is provided for Windows users.
The Go convention is to designate the repository root as the workspace. In
order to interact with the go program and drive the compiler and other tools,
the environment variable GOPATH should be set to the workspace root. The
Windows build script and Makefile show an example of this.
In order to build gobase, just run make install or build.cmd from the
workspace root.
The build scripts pass an argument to the go tool and run it for all libs and
applications in the workspace. They will work with all the usual arguments:
build, install, test, fmt, fix, vet, etc.
To build an individual library or application (THING), you can run go install THING.
To run any associated unit tests, run go test THING. You can also use the
fmt, vet, fix etc. commands in the same way.
The gobase package will be placed in pkg. Application binaries will be placed
in bin.
To run the cucumber tests, just run cucumber from the checkout root directory.