Installer gimme avec Homebrew

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Docs amont
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

Commandes et alias

• gimme

Historique du projet

The public repository began in January 2015, and the README states that the original goal was trivial Go cross-compilation within Travis CI. Early releases added automatic Go version discovery, source and binary install paths, and shell environment output that lets users activate a selected Go installation with eval or by sourcing an env file.

The project evolved around changes in the Go release process. The changelog records support for stable and oldstable aliases, checksums for downloaded archives, mirror support through GIMME_DOWNLOAD_BASE, Windows binary downloads, and repeated updates for newer Go release lines.

Historique d'adoption

gimme became useful because Travis CI users needed repeatable Go versions before Go version managers and CI images covered every combination. Its README documents Homebrew and Arch AUR installation paths, placing it in the package-manager layer used by developers who wanted the same version-selection behavior outside Travis jobs.

Modes d'utilisation

Practitioners use gimme by asking for a Go version, stable alias, oldstable alias, or master branch, then applying the emitted shell environment. In CI it is used with variables such as GIMME_GO_VERSION, GIMME_OS, and GIMME_ARCH to exercise builds across operating-system and architecture combinations.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package maintainers, gimme is a compact example of a version manager that delegates policy to upstream Go release artifacts while caching local installs. It matters less as a broad ecosystem pillar than as a Travis-era tool that encoded Go matrix testing into one shell script.

Chronologie

• 2015: Repository and first tags appeared for the shell-based Go installer.
• 2016: 1.0.0 added Homebrew documentation, cross-compilation support, and broader platform handling.
• 2017: stable alias and known-version listing were added.
• 2018: .x version resolution, oldstable support, and support for Go 1.11-era releases landed.

Related projects

• gimme overlaps with Go version managers and CI image management, but its README frames it specifically around Travis CI cross-compilation and upstream Go release downloads.

Sources

• https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme
• https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/travis-ci/gimme/blob/master/README.md