Comment by thayne
3 months ago
But `go generate` can, and that is required to build some go projects.
It is also somewhat common for some complicated projects to require running a Makefile or similar in order to build, because of dependencies on things other than go code.
The culture around "go generate" is that you check in any files it generates that are needed to build.
In fact, for go libraries you effectively have to otherwise `go get` wouldn't work correctly (since there's no way to easily run `go generate` for a third-party library now that we're using go modules, not gopath).
Have you actually seen this in the wild for any library you might `go get`? Can you link any examples?
> Have you actually seen this in the wild for any library you might `go get`?
Not for a library, but I have for an executable. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was.