Would it be possible to use go overlays instead ?

[ymolists]

Hi Folks

I came to know recently about this project. I am personally thinking of building on top of typescript-go and was looking for inspiration on how to export internal packages. Now i know the go compiler supports overlays that you can "overlay" certain files on top of a repo. This would make it possible to export internal packages.

Would it make sense to use that instead ? i am personally interested in seeing if that is going to work. I thought maybe you already considered it or know why it would not work

Regards.

[auvred]

For overlays, it's still necessary to generate shims (or write them manually) to reexport all the required variables/functions/types. I chose to use shim packages along with the replace directive because it's much easier to work with. For example, both gopls and go build work as expected without any additional configuration.

If you want gopls to support "Go to definition" to tsgo internals, you'll need to somehow make it respect the custom overlay.