How to get a dependency graph for which packages are including other packages (godepgraph)

[rcoreilly]

This is not exactly Cogent Core specific but I keep having to do this to figure out why core/core is getting included in the goal cmd, which then causes a GUI window to open. Maybe we could provide a better GUI version of this functionality at some point?

• tool: https://github.com/kisielk/godepgraph

Example usage:

godepgraph -s -p github.com,gonum.org,golang.org . | dot -Tpng -o depgraph.png 
godepgraph -s -p github.com,gonum.org,golang.org . > depgraph

the .png is sufficiently complex that it is hard to use -- the depgraph is better but you have to pull it up in an editor and search -- that is where a nice tabular GUI might be handy.

[rcoreilly]

This is already answered above :)

[kkoreilly]

Yep, a GUI for this as part of a future Cogent Developer Tools app for Go alongside binary size analysis, profiling, and documentation would definitely be good.

[rcoreilly]

I guess we need a different mechanism (in our new wiki-like docs presumably) for random bits of info like this? Once it is closed, it is much less discoverable..

[kkoreilly]

Random bits of info like this that have no relevance to Cogent Core don't really belong anywhere; once we make Cogent Developer Tools, this will be superseded anyway.