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That's not true. You're supposed to add a workspace path to GOPATH, and keep all your packages in there. You can use multiple workspaces (add more directories to GOPATH), but that's not a requirement.

This screencast might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCsL89YtqCs

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You started your post by claiming it wasn't true, but you proceeded to say that yes, it is in fact true.

As it is stated in the screencast, a programmer needs to add the workspace to $GOPATH to be able to build the source. That means that for each project being developed in Go, you need to add the path to that project to $GOPATH to be able to build it.

That is a very poor way to do develop software.

Or, you could have multiple projects in a single workspace...

Personally, I keep 2; one for external packages, and one for ones I'm working on.

No, that's not true. You just keep all your projects in a single workspace (as I do), and their namespaces keep them separate.

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