Formula Go
Formula Go helps you to build and upload your software written in Go; and then prepares Homebrew and Linuxbrew formulae for it.
Note that Formula Go assumes your software is hosted in GitHub, and its compiled binaries are published in GitHub’s release page.
Step 1: Initialization for your project
Run the following command in the top directory of your project (same directory as .git exists):
$ fgo init
It creates homebrew directory and generates a template of Homebrew formulae there.
Formula Go uses make to compile and upload your program. This initialization step creates a Makefile for this purpose as well as a template of Homebrew formulae.
To create the template, GitHub’s user name and repository name are required. By default, Formula Go checks your git configuration to obtain those information but you can give them via arguments (run fgo init -h for more information).
If your git configuration doesn’t have both information and you don’t give them as arguments, this command will skip to create the template. In this case, you need to re-run init command after setting git configuration.
This command takes the following option flags:
-d, –desc
This flag takes a text and sets it to the description section in the template of brew formulae.
Step 2: Build and upload your program
When you’re ready for releasing your program as a certain version, run
$ fgo build [version]
It starts to build your program to pkg directory and uploads built binary files to GitHub. After uploading binary files, it updates a Homebrew formula in homebrew directory.
For debugging, you may need to build your program but omit uploading. In this case, omit version name in the above command. Formula Go builds your program in pkg/snapshot directory without uploading.
This command takes the following option flags:
-t, –token
This flag specifies a GitHub API token used to upload binaries and create a release page. If this flag is not given but GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable has been set, the environment variable will be used.
If neither this flag nor GITHUB_TOKEN are given, github.token variable in your .gitconfig will be used.
-b, –body
This flag specifies a release note for the given version.
If this flag isn’t given but your CHANGELOG.md contains a release note associated with that version, the release note will be used.
-p, –process
This flag specifies how many goroutines will be used to upload binaries. The default number is as same as the number of CPUs.
–delete
If this flag is set and there is a release for the given version, the release will be deleted and a new release for the given version will be created.
–draft
If this flag is set, the new release won’t be published and will be kept as a draft.
–pre
If this flag is set, the new release will be marked as a prerelease.
Update the brew formula without build
fgo update [version] only updates the Homebrew formula for a given version.
build command updates the Homebrew formula but sometimes you may need to re-update it for a specific version. This command do that.
Commands and options
fgo [global options] command [arguments...]
COMMANDS:
init create Makefile and other related directories.
build build binaries, upload them, and update the brew formula.
update update the brew formula.
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--pkg NAME, -p NAME directory NAME to store package files
(default: "pkg")
--brew NAME, -b NAME directory NAME to store homebrew formula
(default: "homebrew")
--help, -h show help
--version, -v print the version
Installation
Formula Go is available in homebrew and linuxbrew.
$ brew tap jkawamoto/fgo
$ brew install fgo
Formula Go requires make, goxc, and ghr. The above brew install command also installs those dependencies if necessary.
License
This software is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE.