Glide Review

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What is the best dependency manager for golang?

Pros

Pro
Will be familiar to people already used to npm

Glide uses commands similar to npm (install, init, update) so it will be quite familiar to developers already used to npm and the transition will be seamless.

Pro
Automatically locks dependecy versions

Glide works similarly to npm. It downloads packages from different sources and locks their versions in place so that other developers working on the same project use the same packages and versions as everyone else.

Cons

Con
Support is now deferred to golang/godep

https://github.com/golang/dep

Con
No way to automatically update a single dependency

Running glide up will update all the dependencies found in the vendor file to the latest version. If you want to update only one package to the latest version you cannot add the package name after glide up. Instead you must manually update the vendor file and set the version for the package you want to update to the latest released version.

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