Installing packages in a local directory

Question

What is the best practice to install packages (those with go get...) in a local directory?

Example: I\'d like to try out the Revel web framework, but I don\

Answer 1

In modern module enabled go (introduced in go 1.11), you can use the gobin program with a GOBIN env var specifying the destination of the binary:

GOBIN=./local gobin github.com/robfig/revel

Installation of gobin is done like so:

GO111MODULE=off go get -u github.com/myitcv/gobin