[gknoy]

Absolutely. I'm happy to `apt-get install` something, but the conceptual overhead of "let me configure a $language development environment" is high enough that I'm not going to bother just to install this awesome looking tool.

I'd love it if this had been packaged in a way similar to Python or Node tools, where installation is as simple as 'install Python and pip; pip install my-program', and more-experienced users (or those who want source) can clone the git repo.

[laumars]

So request a binary then. You're basically moaning that an open source project is shipping source code.

And FYI, Go is in quite a few distro repos so you might be able to just:

  apt-get install go-lang
  mkdir -p ~/go/src ~go/bin
  export GOPATH=~/go
  go get github.com/schachmat/wego
  go install github.com/schachmat/wego

However considering this is an open source CLI tool, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect he user to do a bit more manual work to compile and run this tool from the command line.

In fact, quite frankly, I find it rather disgusting that someone should share their work and source code like this and have others moan simply because they're too bloody lazy to compile it themselves. I mean seriously guys, this is Hacker News, not PC World Magazine.

[radlad]

It actually does work this way. 'Install Go; go get github.com/me/my-program'. Done.