Why always generate a file named as tools.go?

[gyliu513]

I can see after the code was generated by operator-sdk, there is always a file named as tools.go with content as follows:

// +build tools

// Place any runtime dependencies as imports in this file.
// Go modules will be forced to download and install them.
package tools

What is the use of this file? Can we remove it? Thanks.

[joelanford]

This was added by #1001

We'll be removing this as part of the upcoming Kubebuilder integration.

[camilamacedo86]

Hi @joelanford,

could we not close this one since we are already scaffolding the new layout with operator-sdk init?