拉出单行标准包装的副本以进行修改

Question

I have an idea for a minor addition I would like to make to the database/sql go package. I would like to try my change out to see how it works.

I thought that I would be able to execute this command to get a copy of the source in database/sql that I could play with:

go get github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql

Then, I was going to change my import statement from

import "database/sql"

to

import "github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql"

and put a debugging Printf in my local copy of the code to confirm that the new code I just pulled was being executed rather than the code in /usr/local/go.

When I try the "go get" command above, I get this error message:

$ go get github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql
package github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql: cannot find package "github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql" in any of:
    /usr/local/go/src/github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql (from $GOROOT)
    /Users/me/go/src/github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/database/sql (from $GOPATH)
$ echo $GOPATH
/Users/me/go
$

Why doesn't this work?

I also tried doing this with the source at

https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/release-branch.go1.6/src/database/sql

That didn't work either. Then I tried downloading the tgz of the source from the link above, and untarring those files in my own $GOPATH/src/github.com/database/sql folder, then go building them there. That produced a sql.a that ran, but didn't work.

Answer 1

You can either build Go from source, and then modify the standard library in place, or you can vendor that particular package.

If you have Go installed from source, after editing the package you can install the new version just like any other package with go install database/sql

If you copy the database/sql package into a vendor directory, that copy will be built and imported in place of the version from the standard library.