This package provides utlities for managing aspects of your local Go packages with GPM.

This plugin is designed to help you manage a large package (with subpackages) that also has external dependencies.

The GPM and GVP tools provide a way to handle package-local $GOPATH. Already, they provide excellent support for external packages.

This plugin makes it possible for go tools to find subpackages in the present package by fully qualified package name.

For example, assume you have a package named github.com/technosophos/foo. Say you have this package checked out in a local directory named foo/. With GPM/GVP, your $GOPATH will point to foo/.godeps.

Now say you have a subpackage in foo/ called github.com/technosophos/foo/bar. In order to correctly import this package, you will need the full package name to show up in your $GOPATH. That's where gpm-local comes in:

$ go test
server.go:25:2: cannot find package "github.com/technosophos/foo/bar" in any of:
...
# Uh-oh! The subpackage cannot be found!
$ gpm local name github.com/technosophos/foo
$ go test
# works!

Above, we used gpm local name to tell gpm what the name of our local package is. With this information, it can configure the $GOPATH so that the standard Go tools will be able to find subpackages.

Clone this repo and run:

$ make install

$ gpm local name PACKAGE_NAME

In the above, PACKAGE_NAME is the name of the present package. This will make it possible for the go tools to locate all of the subpackages of the present package.

This works in a rather uninspiring way: It creates a symbolic link from the local package to .godeps/src/ so that the Go tools find subpackages in $GOPATH.

• gpm-git