In CL 199417, we updated “How to Write Go Code” to give a basic
introduction to modules and to include module-mode commands.
However, most new users will end up reading “Getting Started”
(doc/install.html) before “How to Write Go Code”, and we forgot to
update the handful of commands there for module mode.
Before this change, the “Test your installation” section also covered
quite a few operations beoyond merely testing the installation: it
included setting up a GOPATH, building a binary, and installing and
cleaning binaries. Those are valuable operations to learn, but they
arguably belong in “How to Write Go Code”, not “Test your
installation” — and having all that extra detail in the install
instructions may well discourage folks from further essential reading.
Rather than updating all of those operations here, I've removed them.
A companion CL will update “How to Write Go Code” to ensure that it
mentions GOPATH (as the location of the module cache and the default
install location for binaries) and 'go clean -i'.
Updates #37042
Change-Id: I157f21ccbe3896575fa1115dc821abf6c71ed15e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/217840
Run-TryBot: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Bui-Palsulich <tbp@google.com>
Path should now appear with the correct slash, depending on which
platform install document is being viewed - keeping in line with the
rest of the document.
Fixes#30160
Change-Id: Ib10e5a4adf366c700bff6f8d246bd5e3111ed61c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/162918
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
install.html still insisted that GOROOT must be set if a binary install
of Go is set up in a custom directory. However, since 1.10, this has
been unnecessary as the GOROOT will be found based on the location of
the 'go' binary being run.
Likewise, install-source.html includes an 'export GOROOT' line in a
section that only talks about explicitly setting GOARCH and GOOS, which
is optional. We don't want to have users think it is recommended to set
GOROOT here either, so remove the unnecessary line.
Change-Id: I7dfef09f9a1d003e0253b793d63ea40d5cf1837f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/161758
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
I needed Go 1.10 to debug and fix a test failure on that Go version in
x/tools, but I forgot what the magic 'go get' command for this was.
Googling "download specific golang version" and similar keywords showed
no results, presumably because the golang.org/dl subrepo isn't
prominently recommended nor documented anywhere.
The most appropriate documentation page to add this to is doc/install,
since it goes into some detail and is well indexed. We only need a short
section to introduce the trick.
The example does mention a specific version, Go 1.10.7, but I couldn't
imagine a way to make it version-agnostic while still being clear on
what the commands effectively do.
Change-Id: I13158564d76d95caec412cdb35a50a4356df5863
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/157457
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Also, remove some test code that was trying to work on XP and fix up
some comments referencing XP.
Fixes#26191
Updates #23380
Change-Id: I0b7319fe1954afddb22d396e5ec91d8c960268d8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123415
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Brainman <alex.brainman@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
The name was "Mac OS X" during versions 10.0 to 10.7.
It was renamed to "OS X" starting from 10.8 until 10.11.
The current name is "macOS" starting with 10.12. [1]
Previous changes (e.g., CL 47252) updated "Mac OS X" to macOS
in some places, but not everywhere. This CL updates remaining
instances for consistency.
Only the pages that display current information were updated;
historical pages such as release notes for older Go releases,
past articles, blog posts, etc., were left in original form.
Rename the "#osx" anchor to "#macos" on /doc/install page,
along with the single reference to it on the same page.
Add an empty div with id="osx" to not break old links.
Update minimum macOS version from 10.8 to 10.10 per #23122.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/macOS#History
Updates #23122.
Change-Id: I69fe4b85e83265b9d99f447e3cc5230dde094869
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/119855
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Point out that one can just run the commands now; it's not necessary
to log out first.
Change-Id: I48d0cc0273d97ba54ce59b3a3bbcae0b5af9aaef
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/106195
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
If one is somewhat new to the command line or shell, it might be
surprising that changes applied to a file like $HOME/.profile will
seemingly not take effect, even if new shells are started.
Add a note about how shells usually only load these when the user logs
into a machine, to minimize the amount of people stuck and confused by
this.
Fixes#24756.
Change-Id: Ic68d8c97933f3f080b151a107633ecad76a163a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/105557
Reviewed-by: Agniva De Sarker <agniva.quicksilver@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
This change drops the support for FreeBSD 9 or below and simplifies
platform-dependent code for the sake of maintenance.
Updates #7187.
Fixes#11412.
Updates #16064.
Updates #18854.
Fixes#19072.
Change-Id: I9129130aafbfc7d0d7e9b674b6fc6cb31b7381be
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/64910
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
FreeBSD 9.3.
Add Linux arm64. (required second line)
Clarify glibc requirement now that we have second line in notes.
OS X to macOS
Updates #20850
Change-Id: I684d464ed32a072081726b7c805a346c22c42f97
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/47252
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The download page says "OS X 10.8 or later", but other pages said 10.7.
Say 10.8 everywhere.
Turns out Go doesn't even compile on OS X 10.7 (details in bug) and we
only run builders for OS X 10.8+, which is likely why 10.7
regressed. Until recently we only had OS X 10.10 builders, even.
We could run 10.7 builders, but there's basically no reason to do so,
especially with 10.12 coming out imminently.
Fixes#16625
Change-Id: Ida6e20fb6c54aea0a3757235b708ac1c053b8c04
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/28870
Reviewed-by: Chris Broadfoot <cbro@golang.org>
Currently the footnote says "gcc is required only if you plan to use cgo",
but the footnote was referenced from the text:
"use the clang or gcc† that comes with Xcode‡ for cgo support"
That seems to imply that clang doesn't get you cgo support on OS X,
which isn't true. The update text matches what the install-source.html
page says.
Change-Id: Ib88464a0d138227d357033123f6675a77d5d777f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/28786
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Now there are ARM downloads too.
Change-Id: I236381508c69d56748e672d184b92caa715e81ae
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18342
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Make clear that this list is the list of supported systems
for binary distributions, and that other systems may be
able to build the distribution from source, in addition
to using gccgo.
Drop freebsd/arm from the list on this page.
We have never issued a binary distribution for freebsd/arm,
and we're not going to start in Go 1.5, since we don't even
have a working builder for it.
Drop freebsd/386 from the list on the page,
because we are unable to build binary distributions, per adg.
I think the wording here should probably be revised further,
but not now.
Change-Id: Ib43b6b64f5c438bfb9aa4d3daa43393f1e33b71f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13690
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
This change allows the download page to redirect the user to
/doc/install?download=filename so the user can see installation
instructions specific to the file they are downloading.
This change also expands the "Test your Go installation" section
to instruct the user to create a workspace, hopefully leading
to less confusion down the line.
It also changes the front page download link to go directly
to the downloads page, which will in turn take them to the
installation instructions (the original destination).
This is related to this change to the tools repo:
https://golang.org/cl/13180
Change-Id: I658327bdb93ad228fb1846e389b281b15da91b1d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/13151
Reviewed-by: Chris Broadfoot <cbro@golang.org>
This manually reverts 555da73 from #6372 which implies a
minimum FreeBSD version of 8-STABLE.
Updates docs to mention new minimum requirement.
Fixes#9627
Change-Id: I40ae64be3682d79dd55024e32581e3e5e2be8aa7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3020
Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
golang.org now serves HTTPS with a valid cert, so it's reasonable
that users should click through to the HTTPS versions of *.golang.org
and other known sites.
LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/112650043
We will serve downloads from here until we work out a better plan.
LGTM=bradfitz
R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/95980044
So that we don't need to update the file each time a new version is released.
LGTM=dave, r, adg
R=golang-codereviews, dave, josharian, gobot, adg, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/48730043
Clarify that GOROOT should only be set when using a custom install path.
Remove NetBSD from binary install page (we don't provide binaries).
Remove "What's next" links from installation instructions.
Emphasize "How to Write Go Code" page.
Fixes#6613.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/28700043
