Product and dependency version helper.
This package does several useful things.
- It prints some nice looking text about the following things:
- Name of the program
- Version of the program
- List of dependencies containing:
- Dependency names
- Dependency versions
- It checks for updates on GitHub:
- If an updated version of the program is available, this library tell about it.
Due to an old bug #29228 issued on 13.12.2018
( golang/go#29228 ) which resulted in a chain of
other opened issues, such as #50603
( golang/go#50603 ), we can see that current version
of Go language incorrectly shows version text of the main package manually
built from the repository's source code. It means that versioning mechanism in
Go is still not working as it should :/
Well ... this is Go, my friends. This is not the C#.
The good news is that one of the comments in the issue #50603 states that:
The version is recorded as expected when doing go install
This means that if you see a (devel) version instead of a normal version
taken from the Git tag, you should use go install instead of go build to
build your projects.