The golang Glide packager automatically will install dependencies for a project, however, in doing so it pulls in dependencies from the vendor/, since many projects check in vendor dependencies.
How should one import a glide dependency which includes a vendor/ directory?
As of now, it appears that you can get errors such as :
./scheduler.go:36: cannot use "github.com/jayunit100/my-project/vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag".CommandLine (type *"github.com/jayunit100/my-project/vendor/a/b/spf13/pflag".FlagSet) as type *"github.com/jayunit100/my-project/vendor/a/b/vendor/github.com/spf13/pflag".FlagSet
vendor/ so there are no redundancies.vendor/ dependency duplication?My current solution has been to manually delete vendor/ directories from libraries which are brought in that keep vendor/.
... (Update) glide supports a --strip-vendor option.
I think this is quite a common issue for people using glide. My team ran into the same issue and had to investigate for a while but eventually found that using the flatten operation solved this for us.
To do this pass the -v flag to your glide operations.
e.g. glide up -v
You can read more about it on the glide docs.