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Reputation: 2758

Are go modules meant to be installed as executable programs or packages?

Can Go modules be built as an executable program? Or, are they meant to be published as libraries for code reuse?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 803

Answers (2)

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 31681

Building an executable and publishing a library are not mutually exclusive (note that modules are not compiled, packages are).

A module is a collection of related Go packages that are versioned together as a single unit.

Modules record precise dependency requirements and create reproducible builds.

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#modules

Whether these packages contain a main package or not is irrelevant.

Upvotes: 6

Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 1840

They're intended to work as packages, like something you would install from NPM for a JavaScript project, or from PIP in a Python project.

Upvotes: 4

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