go1 updates: standard errors now in syscall package, no more makefile support

Makefile

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# standard GO make file preamble
-include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.inc
-
-# target package name
-TARG=iconv
-
-# regular go files
-GOFILES=\
-	reader.go\
-	writer.go\
-
-# files that must be processed by cgo
-CGOFILES=\
-	converter.go\
-	iconv.go\
-
-# on non glibc systems, we usually need to load the library
-ifneq ($(GOOS),linux)
-CGO_LDFLAGS=-liconv
-endif
-
-# standard GO make file include for packages
-include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.pkg

README.md

@@ -1,16 +1,6 @@
 # Install
 
-The main method of installation is through gomake (provided in $GOROOT/bin)
-
-	git clone git://github.com/djimenez/iconv.go.git iconv
-	cd iconv
-	gomake install
-
-Alternatively, you can try using goinstall (also provided in $GOROOT/bin).
-However, because iconv.go uses cgo to wrap iconv functions, the build may not
-succeed on all systems. At time of writing goinstall was still experimental and
-has known issues with cgo based packages because of how it produces its own
-make file.
+The main method of installation is through "go install" (provided in $GOROOT/bin)
 
 	go install github.com/djimenez/iconv.go
 
@@ -19,10 +9,6 @@ make file.
 To use the package, you'll need the appropriate import statement:
 
 	import (
-		// if you used gomake install directly, you'll want this import
-		iconv
-		
-		// if you used goinstall, you'll want this import
 		iconv "github.com/djimenez/iconv.go"
 	)
 
@@ -96,18 +82,18 @@ automatically do this since it can be used to process a full stream in chunks.
 So you'll need to remember to pass a nil input buffer at the end yourself, just
 like you would with direct iconv usage.
 
-## Converting an *io.Reader
+## Converting an \*io.Reader
 
-The iconv.Reader allows any other *io.Reader to be wrapped and have its bytes
+The iconv.Reader allows any other \*io.Reader to be wrapped and have its bytes
 transcoded as they are read. 
 
 	// We're wrapping stdin for simplicity, but a File or network reader could
 	// be wrapped as well
 	reader,_ := iconv.NewReader(os.Stdin, "utf-8", "windows-1252")
 
-## Converting an *io.Writer
+## Converting an \*io.Writer
 
-The iconv.Writer allows any other *io.Writer to be wrapped and have its bytes
+The iconv.Writer allows any other \*io.Writer to be wrapped and have its bytes
 transcoded as they are written. 
 
 	// We're wrapping stdout for simplicity, but a File or network reader could

converter.go

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 package iconv
 
 /*
+#cgo darwin LDFLAGS: -liconv 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <iconv.h>
 */
 import "C"
-import "os"
+import "syscall"
 import "unsafe"
 
 type Converter struct {
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ type Converter struct {
 // Initialize a new Converter. If fromEncoding or toEncoding are not supported by
 // iconv then an EINVAL error will be returned. An ENOMEM error maybe returned if
 // there is not enough memory to initialize an iconv descriptor
-func NewConverter(fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (converter *Converter, err Error) {
+func NewConverter(fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (converter *Converter, err error) {
 	converter = new(Converter)
 
 	// convert to C strings
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ func (this *Converter) destroy() {
 }
 
 // Close a Converter's iconv description explicitly
-func (this *Converter) Close() (err os.Error) {
+func (this *Converter) Close() (err error) {
 	if this.open {
 		_, err = C.iconv_close(this.context)
 	}
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ func (this *Converter) Close() (err os.Error) {
 // For shift based output encodings, any end shift byte sequences can be generated by
 // passing a 0 length byte slice as input. Also passing a 0 length byte slice for output
 // will simply reset the iconv descriptor shift state without writing any bytes.
-func (this *Converter) Convert(input []byte, output []byte) (bytesRead int, bytesWritten int, err Error) {
+func (this *Converter) Convert(input []byte, output []byte) (bytesRead int, bytesWritten int, err error) {
 	// make sure we are still open
 	if this.open {
 		inputLeft := C.size_t(len(input))
@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ func (this *Converter) Convert(input []byte, output []byte) (bytesRead int, byte
 			_, err = C.iconv(this.context, nil, &inputLeft, nil, &outputLeft)
 		}
 	} else {
-		err = EBADF
+		err = syscall.EBADF
 	}
 
 	return bytesRead, bytesWritten, err
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ func (this *Converter) Convert(input []byte, output []byte) (bytesRead int, byte
 //
 // EILSEQ error may be returned if input contains invalid bytes for the
 // Converter's fromEncoding.
-func (this *Converter) ConvertString(input string) (output string, err Error) {
+func (this *Converter) ConvertString(input string) (output string, err error) {
 	// make sure we are still open
 	if this.open {
 		// construct the buffers
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ func (this *Converter) ConvertString(input string) (output string, err Error) {
 
 			// check for the E2BIG error specifically, we can add to the output
 			// buffer to correct for it and then continue
-			if err == E2BIG {
+			if err == syscall.E2BIG {
 				// increase the size of the output buffer by another input length
 				// first, create a new buffer
 				tempBuffer := make([]byte, len(outputBuffer)+len(inputBuffer))
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ func (this *Converter) ConvertString(input string) (output string, err Error) {
 		// construct the final output string
 		output = string(outputBuffer[:totalBytesWritten])
 	} else {
-		err = EBADF
+		err = syscall.EBADF
 	}
 
 	return output, err

iconv.go

@@ -5,26 +5,8 @@ some convenient interface implementations like a Reader and Writer.
 */
 package iconv
 
-/*
-#include <errno.h>
-*/
-import "C"
-import "os"
-
-// Alias os.Error for convenience
-type Error os.Error
-
-// Error codes returned from iconv functions
-var (
-	E2BIG Error = os.Errno(int(C.E2BIG))
-	EBADF Error = os.Errno(int(C.EBADF))
-	EINVAL Error = os.Errno(int(C.EINVAL))
-	EILSEQ Error = os.Errno(int(C.EILSEQ))
-	ENOMEM Error = os.Errno(int(C.ENOMEM))
-)
-
 // All in one Convert method, rather than requiring the construction of an iconv.Converter
-func Convert(input []byte, output []byte, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (bytesRead int, bytesWritten int, err Error) {
+func Convert(input []byte, output []byte, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (bytesRead int, bytesWritten int, err error) {
 	// create a temporary converter
 	converter, err := NewConverter(fromEncoding, toEncoding)
 
@@ -50,7 +32,7 @@ func Convert(input []byte, output []byte, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string
 }
 
 // All in one ConvertString method, rather than requiring the construction of an iconv.Converter
-func ConvertString(input string, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (output string, err Error) {
+func ConvertString(input string, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (output string, err error) {
 	// create a temporary converter
 	converter, err := NewConverter(fromEncoding, toEncoding)
 

iconv_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package iconv
 
 import (
+	"syscall"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ type iconvTest struct {
 	outputEncoding string
 	bytesRead      int
 	bytesWritten   int
-	err Error
+	err            error
 }
 
 var iconvTests = []iconvTest{
@@ -26,25 +27,25 @@ var iconvTests = []iconvTest {
 		"invalid source encoding causes EINVAL",
 		"", "doesnotexist",
 		"", "utf-8",
-		0, 0, EINVAL,
+		0, 0, syscall.EINVAL,
 	},
 	iconvTest{
 		"invalid destination encoding causes EINVAL",
 		"", "utf-8",
 		"", "doesnotexist",
-		0, 0, EINVAL,
+		0, 0, syscall.EINVAL,
 	},
 	iconvTest{
 		"invalid input sequence causes EILSEQ",
 		"\xFF", "utf-8",
 		"", "latin1",
-		0, 0, EILSEQ,
+		0, 0, syscall.EILSEQ,
 	},
 	iconvTest{
 		"invalid input causes partial output and EILSEQ",
 		"Hello\xFF", "utf-8",
 		"Hello", "latin1",
-		5, 5, EILSEQ,
+		5, 5, syscall.EILSEQ,
 	},
 }
 

reader.go

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package iconv
 
 import (
 	"io"
-	"os"
+	"syscall"
 )
 
 type Reader struct {
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ type Reader struct {
 	converter         *Converter
 	buffer            []byte
 	readPos, writePos int
-	err os.Error
+	err               error
 }
 
-func NewReader(source io.Reader, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (*Reader, os.Error) {
+func NewReader(source io.Reader, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (*Reader, error) {
 	// create a converter
 	converter, err := NewConverter(fromEncoding, toEncoding)
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func (this *Reader) fillBuffer() {
 }
 
 // implement the io.Reader interface
-func (this *Reader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
+func (this *Reader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	// checks for when we have no data
 	for this.writePos == 0 || this.readPos == this.writePos {
 		// if we have an error / EOF, just return it
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ func (this *Reader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
 		// as at least 1 byte was written. If we experienced an E2BIG
 		// and no bytes were written then the buffer is too small for
 		// even the next character
-		if err != E2BIG || bytesWritten == 0 {
+		if err != syscall.E2BIG || bytesWritten == 0 {
 			// track anything else
 			this.err = err
 		}

writer.go

@@ -1,19 +1,16 @@
 package iconv
 
-import ( 
-	"io"
-	"os"
-)
+import "io"
 
 type Writer struct {
 	destination       io.Writer
 	converter         *Converter
 	buffer            []byte
 	readPos, writePos int
-	err os.Error
+	err               error
 }
 
-func NewWriter(destination io.Writer, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (*Writer, os.Error) {
+func NewWriter(destination io.Writer, fromEncoding string, toEncoding string) (*Writer, error) {
 	// create a converter
 	converter, err := NewConverter(fromEncoding, toEncoding)
 
@@ -62,7 +59,7 @@ func (this *Writer) emptyBuffer() {
 }
 
 // implement the io.Writer interface
-func (this *Writer) Write(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error) {
+func (this *Writer) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	// write data into our internal buffer
 	bytesRead, bytesWritten, err := this.converter.Convert(p, this.buffer[this.writePos:])