gotype removed

[jayvdb]

All builds failing with

$ go get -u golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gotype
package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gotype: cannot find package "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gotype" in any of:
	/home/travis/.gimme/versions/go1.7.linux.amd64/src/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gotype (from $GOROOT)
	/home/travis/gopath/src/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gotype (from $GOPATH)

[jayvdb]

So this would be caused by golang/tools@f5a6ee1
Review: https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/37657/

[jayvdb]

alecthomas/gometalinter#91 is about the same problem, but they knew about it in advance.
alecthomas/gometalinter#206 is their current discussion about it.
cc @yukiisbored

[jayvdb]

Do we try to re-implement this using a different command? I see quite a few alternatives mentioned in the various issues about this deprecation.

Or deprecate the bear?
If we deprecate it, either we remove it from test coverage, or we need to create our own repo with the old code in it, as the original is gone and go doesnt do versioning.

Or do we effectively delete the bear, perhaps with a placeholder to ensure an appropriate warning message is emitted?

[yukiisbored]

I'm not quite sure which is the best option. It seems to be "on going" at the moment. Part of me thinks it'll be part of the go command but not quite sure. Scratch that, golang/go#12703 (comment)

[yukiisbored]

After browsing the repository, it looks like they moved it here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/go/types/gotype.go

[yukiisbored]

Still have no idea how to use go get for that.

[yukiisbored]

The best decision that I can think of for now is to deprecate this bear and create a new one that uses go build -i

[jayvdb]

If necessary, we can git clone the repo, and build the moved tool from the clone?

[yukiisbored]

@jayvdb Most likely that's the only option. Actually, we can just clone the release-branch.go1.8 branch from the golang/tools repository.

[jayvdb]

Can we create a copy of just the necessary files, and put them in a repo, so it is quick to clone and go get also works?