FWIW, ~/.local/bin is not in my path, on Fedora. Though I can, of course, change that. And while macOS might not be treated as representative of the unix ecosystem, it *definitely* should be considered part of the Go ecosystem. It does weaken the argument of ~/.local/bin being "the standard install directory".
I'm not opposed to changing the default install location, but we should have an answer for all platforms. And I think as long as GOPATH exists defaulting to something else seems strange. Setting GOPATH should be a signal that the user is at least aware of the Go conventions. People who want to change the install location can always set GOBIN as well. And FWIW, I know that we have decided to abandon GOPATH, but it does make me sad. And it's something I'm dearly missing as a newcomer to *other* languages. Having a single environment variable and the guarantee that anything related to that new language is in that single directory - can thus be pruned easily when I'm done experimenting, got into a screwed up state or is guaranteed to have the answer when I'm wondering "what is making $language_tool behave this way?" just seems like a very good idea to me which every language should adopt. But oh well, I know that GOPATH is dying, so I'll have to live with it, I guess. On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 1:13 AM Fuzzy Fabricator <fuzzyfabrica...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, July 13, 2021 at 9:50:25 PM UTC-7 rcore...@gmail.com wrote: > >> It would be great if there were a universal standard location in the >> user's $HOME directory that is already on the PATH, because that always >> trips up new users when starting to use a CLI. >> >> But that does not appear to be the case on the mac -- this seems to be >> what a default user gets, at least on my system: >> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin >> > > It doesn't include ~/go/bin, either. We shouldn't be using that then? > Also, while macOS is a Unix, it should not be treated as representative of > the ecosystem. > > >> I didn't even know about ~/.local until this email, and I was a longtime >> linux user prior to mostly using a mac. Windows is always different. > > > It's been around for at least a decade. It's part of the freedesktop.org > standard hierarchy[0], and notwithstanding some distributions being > extremely slow on the uptick. Python's PEP 370[1] from 2008 specifies it - > and as a result, pip has been installing to this directory for years, > including on macOS. > > [0] > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#Home%20Directory > [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0370/ > > >> Anyway, given those issues, probably better to stick with the current >> default like you say.. >> > > The current default is a strange, non-standard artifact of a dead design > that's doing no one any good, least of all newcomers to Go or > non-developers just trying to get something installed according to the > instructions. > > > -- > 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. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8c3b97c6-5b06-4790-a504-1b2ef7e83fc0n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8c3b97c6-5b06-4790-a504-1b2ef7e83fc0n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfFzn22y%2B1n4G64x%3DrrS2n0nD2AnaZkjVTrO_VbkNkeBMA%40mail.gmail.com.
