godep VS dep

Compare godep vs dep and see what are their differences.

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godep dep
1 5
5,625 13,228
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0.0 1.6
over 6 years ago over 3 years ago
Go Go
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godep

Posts with mentions or reviews of godep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-03.
  • Getting started with Go
    6 projects | dev.to | 3 Apr 2021
    Until quite recently, Go did not have built-in package versioning like npm or cargo. This led to incompatibile versioning add-ons, like godep and glide, which made packages with nested dependencies difficult to consume. E.g. see this old INSTALL.md from kubernetes/client-go.

dep

Posts with mentions or reviews of dep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing godep and dep you can also consider the following projects:

govendor

glide - Package Management for Golang

gom - Go Manager - bundle for go

gvt

johnny-deps - Barebones dependency manager for Go.

gopm

goop - A simple dependency manager for Go (golang), inspired by Bundler.

mvn-golang - maven plugin to automate GoSDK load and build of projects