go-binary-version-manager (gbvm)

Version manager for go libraries, currently golangci-lint and mockery support. Other libraries can be added easily.

Motivation

The projects I worked on used different versions of the golangci-lint and mockery libraries. When I use their commands, inconsistent, strange errors occur. I am aiming to solve this problem by writing a basic binary manager that uses symlink under the hood. This project infra is easy to extend for other libraries too :)

Note: Executable binaries must be within ($GOPATH/go/bin) before using gbvm. For example, if you installed golangci-lint via homebrew, you need to delete it first. You should install with gbvm install command.

Demo

Installation

via Brew

brew install abdulsametileri/tap/gbvm

via Golang

go install github.com/Abdulsametileri/go-binary-version-manager@latest

After installing go command, the binary artifact name is go-binary-version-manager, you can rename it like

mv $GOPATH/bin/go-binary-version-manager $GOPATH/bin/gbvm

or

mv $HOME/go/bin/go-binary-version-manager $HOME/go/bin/gbvm

Behind the scenes

Commands

Command	Explanation	Example
gbvm listall $LIBRARY	it lists all installed versions of the given library	gbvm listall mockery
gbvm enable $LIBRARY@$VERSION	it enables given version of the library	gbvm enable golangci-lint@v1.55.1
gbvm install $LIBRARY@VERSION	it installs given version of the library	gbvm install mockery@v2.20.0
gbvm uninstall $LIBRARY@VERSION	it uninstalls given version of the library	gbvm uninstall mockery@v2.20.0

Having issue

Enable logs

You can enable debug logs via -v=5
    
gbvm enable golangci-lint@v1.59.0 -v=5
    
PanicLevel (0), Fatal (1), Error (2)
Warn (3), Info (4), Debug (5), Trace (6)

Check your zshrc/bashrc

This library heavily used `go env GOPATH`, please check
export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin
defined your zshrc/bashrc

TODO

• e2e test like vx