Some tools are not built using go get about bingo

[bwplotka]

Sorry for lag, fair questions! If it's special build flags or even tags - this is already supported: https://github.com/bwplotka/bingo#advanced-techniques - however we could make it more easy to use (some extra flag "--params" to bingo get).

For git clone + custom script building this is more tricky. There is little guarantee that custom script does not require external dependencies or special architecture (rarely authors self-contain those deps). Not sure there is a solution to that, other than working with those CLI authors to make their CLI tools more accessible and self-contained Go code. Ideas welcome and if there are some popular patterns and use cases - I would be keen to learn (:

[mem]

Now it's me lagging behind.

I see what you mean.

In the example that I referenced, the makefile is going is grabbing the git tag and converting that to the appropriate format to pass thru ldflags so that the version number can be embedded in the resulting binary.

It would be relatively straightforward to duplicate that logic elsewhere, but the keyword is duplicate. This would need to be kept in sync with the makefile. It's unlikely that this will change, but unlikely does not mean impossible.

What I'm trying to say is that while I think individual cases have solutions, the general case doesn't. Think for example of a program that requires mage to build. The most that you can aspire to in that case is that there's a target that builds the binary and that you can control the output location. The other obvious problem is what I showed in my initial post: if something is not go-gettable, you probably need to clone a repository in order to build it.

So while I fully agree with the intuition that something that requires make to build will also require other dependencies, I think that's a problem that should be solved outside of bingo: as long as you can specify a "build script" that bingo could use, and some requirements are met, that script ought to make sure that those dependencies are available.

Does that make sense?