# Masterminds/glide

Package Management for Golang

Repository: https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/masterminds-glide
Homepage: https://glide.sh
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: go, golang, package-management, semantic-versions
Last push: 2024-07-22T15:41:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4438, "days_push": 772, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8087, forks 531 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:12.610123+00:00)

## What it is
Glide is a vendor package manager for Go, managing a project's vendor directory with semantic version constraints defined in glide.yaml. It is now mostly unmaintained, as the Go community has moved to Go Modules.

## Use cases
- manage vendored dependencies for a Go project
- pin Go package versions with semantic version constraints
- resolve transitive dependencies in Go before modules
- alias a forked Go package import path
- install Go dependencies into the vendor directory

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy pre-Go-Modules codebase that already uses glide.yaml
- working in an environment that cannot adopt Go Modules

## When to avoid
- starting any new Go project - use Go Modules instead
- you need actively maintained tooling or support for modern Go workflows

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: package-manager, dependency-audit, cli
- domain: developer-tools, version-control, programming-languages
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform
- tags: golang, vendor-directory, semantic-versioning, dependency-management, legacy-tool

## Member repositories
- Masterminds/glide (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:12.610123+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:30:47.912648+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Masterminds/glide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:12.610123+00:00, sha 7b6a44f249b3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.