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Comment by talloaktrees | Hacker News Reader

Alright, I had some real problems building this on Ubuntu.

    1. I couldn't compile completion.  There is no build.go in the build directory
    2. I tried compiling lime anyways, by it required go-qt5 even though the repo page says that's optional.

I really wanted to check this out but I'm not really willing to spend more than the 15 minutes I already did trying to build it.

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Please check out my comment in another thread with my experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601763

As a self-proclaimed gopher: this build has taken me far more than 15 minutes, and I'm still struggling with my Python installation.

The main issue here is that very few of these packages follow the proper conventions to work with the `go get` tool.

The author has attempted to version control his third-party deps (something `go get` lacks) in addition to using cgo (to build a C extension for Python). Plus there's a frontend with a dependency on QT5 (another complicated C-interop library which probably has its own crazy dependency maze).

This is a fairly complex build, but the lack of `go gettable` packages and poor factoring of some packages is definitely making it more complex than it needs to be.

Same issue here. No build.go in completion. Please update the instructions because I REALLY REALLY want to give it a try. Thanks!

Same issue on OS X. Spent a few minutes to check this out but the build instructions aren't clear enough.

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