[Nix-dev] Added renameImports utility to goBuildPackage

[Domen Kožar]

You can easily add docs for just this feature - without waiting for other
docs.

Start a section for goBuildPackage (you can steal buildPythonPackage
snippet) and
document only renameImports.

d.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sometimes git repos get renamed and break go packages because of
> different import paths.
> Since today I've added a simple renameImports utility, not sure if that
> was worth it because it was easy to do without it, anyway:
>
> renameImports = [
>   "foo bar"
>   "baz qux"
> ];
>
> Will rename imports from foo to bar and from baz to qux. The replaced
> import is a regexp. This code will simply run govers -m foo bar; govers
> -m baz qux.
>
> Since it seems a rather common thing to do, I've decided to add this
> common code to buildGoPackage, also it will be easier to switch a day to
> something else than govers (just in case).
>
> Hopefully we'll have nixpkgs docs about packaging go stuff a day.
>
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