Too many dependencies

[dolmen]

Too many dependencies referenced in go.mod.

It would be helpful to move the test suite to a separate Go module in the same repo. Go workspaces might be helpful for development.

[Thiht]

Yeah this is a frustrating problem with go.mod. All the dependencies are actually test-only dependencies, and they won't be pulled on go get or go mod download.

I'm not a fan of changing how the code (and tests) is structured to bypass a shortcoming of the official tooling, so I'd rather keep it this way and wait for updates on golang/go#44743 or golang/go#26955

(I don't close the issue yet because I'm still a bit torn on this)

[Thiht]

I changed my mind and did the split, having an empty root go.mod is great :D

[komuw]

An alternative would be to use a tool like https://github.com/komuw/ote.