On Tue, 08 May 2018 06:52:06 +0000 Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 10:02 PM Dave Cheney <d...@cheney.net> wrote: > > > Top tip: you never need to set GOROOT. Please don’t set GOROOT, it’ll > just cause confusing errors for you in the future. > > The formulation quoted above is not correct because of the word 'never'. > Most people do not need to ever set GOROOT, that's true. But some people do > need to set that environment variable. Sometimes even to different values > in different terminals. > some people do need to set that Someone who **knows** she will need to set GOROOT likely is fully aware of the consequences. For the beginner the "it will cause confusing errors for you" is not a mere warning but is a precise description of reality. @OP: Read 'never' as 'you MAY NOT set GOROOT until you know what it intails'. -- Wojciech S. Czarnecki << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
