Can I have multiple GOPATH directories?

Question

I set my GOPATH to

/Users/me/dev/go 

and I have

/Users/me/dev/go/src/client1 /Users/me/dev/go/src/client2 /Users/me/dev/go/src/client3 

and also

/Users/me/dev/client1/rails_project /Users/me/dev/client2/php_project etc. 

I don't like how in my root dev folder I'm forced to have this general "go" dir that holds many different client's go projects.

Answer 1

Yes, GOPATH is a list of directories (like PATH). Run go help gopath for details. For example, on Linux, I have:

$ go env GOROOT="/home/peter/go" GOPATH="/home/peter/gopath:/home/peter/public/gopath" $ 

I have something similar on Windows.

Note: Linux uses : as the GOPATH list separator; Windows uses ; as the separator.

If you use go get it will default to the first directory in the list.

Run go env to check that everything is correct.