I enabled the golang backend and have a directory with some go files that I was expecting to get picked up by

tailor

.

tailor

seems to be satisfied with no build files for those files. Anything obvious I might be leaving out to get

tailor

to start finding my things?

Looking at the source code (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/25699f449caf6e73157026ccca5077682168d168/src/python/pants/backend/go/goals/tailor.py), it looks like the tailoring logic depends on

go.mod

files and

package main

contents. What's your (approximate) file structure? What's the manual

BUILD

that works for you?

Gotcha. I just made one directory with

my_file.go

inside and threw

tailor

at it. When nothing happened, I made a

BUILD

file with a single

go_package

entry.

I haven't written any either, so I'm only slightly helpful 🤷‍♂️ It sounds like for this first step, tailor is potentially doing nothing due to no

go.mod

file, whatever that file means!

Neat, adding

go.mod

at the top level made things happy