Build and release open-source Go programs, now in preview

February 13, 2019

We launched Equinox because we wanted to give back to the Go community. Our goal is to make it easy to distribute your Go programs with your fellow Gophers. In the past, it wasn't easy to do that for open source builds.

Today we're launching a preview of go.equinox.io, a service for building and distributing any go-gettable Go package. It's as easy to use as any other Go services you love, like godoc.org.

go.equinox.io is completely free to use and will remain free. Each package gets a download page, binaries built for Windows, Linux and macOS. macOS binaries can also be installed via Homebrew.

If you are interested in packaging private repos, or distributing self-updating binaries (think mybinary update), we offer these features as paid upgrades. If you are interested, sign up for an Equinox account, and or contact our sales team.

Here are a few of our favorite packages, available for download now:

• github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl/cmd/grpcurl
• github.com/genuinetools/weather
• github.com/google/skicka
• github.com/golang/dep
• github.com/rakyll/hey
• github.com/davecheney/prdeps

Here are some of the tools that help us build Equinox.

• github.com/kevinburke/go-bindata/go-bindata
• github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
• github.com/mattn/goreman

Want to build your package? Head over to go.equinox.io, enter your import path and hit enter. In a few minutes your package will be ready to install. A reminder that this is a preview, so you may hit snags. If you run into any issues, please email us at contact@equinox.io.

Happy shipping!

- The Equinox team