diff --git a/bin/dist_get b/bin/dist_get
deleted file mode 100755
index 39320443a..000000000
--- a/bin/dist_get
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,177 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-GOCC=${GOCC=go}
-
-die() {
-	echo "$@" >&2
-	exit 1
-}
-
-have_binary() {
-	type "$1" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
-}
-
-check_writable() {
-	printf "" > "$1" && rm "$1"
-}
-
-try_download() {
-	url="$1"
-	output="$2"
-	command="$3"
-	util_name="$(set -- $command; echo "$1")"
-
-	if ! have_binary "$util_name"; then
-		return 1
-	fi
-
-	printf '==> Using %s to download "%s" to "%s"\n' "$util_name" "$url" "$output"
-	if eval "$command"; then
-		echo "==> Download complete!"
-		return
-	else
-		echo "error: couldn't download with $util_name ($?)"
-		return 1
-	fi
-}
-
-download() {
-	dl_url="$1"
-	dl_output="$2"
-
-	test "$#" -eq "2" || die "download requires exactly two arguments, was given $@"
-
-	if ! check_writable "$dl_output"; then
-		die "download error: cannot write to $dl_output"
-	fi
-
-	try_download "$dl_url" "$dl_output" "wget '$dl_url' -O '$dl_output'" && return
-	try_download "$dl_url" "$dl_output" "curl --silent --fail --output '$dl_output' '$dl_url'" && return
-	try_download "$dl_url" "$dl_output" "fetch '$dl_url' -o '$dl_output'" && return
-	try_download "$dl_url" "$dl_output" "http '$dl_url' > '$dl_output'" && return
-	try_download "$dl_url" "$dl_output" "ftp -o '$dl_output' '$dl_url'" && return
-
-	die "Unable to download $dl_url. exiting."
-}
-
-unarchive() {
-	ua_archivetype="$1"
-	ua_infile="$2"
-	ua_outfile="$3"
-	ua_distname="$4"
-	ua_binpostfix=""
-	ua_os=$(uname -o)
-
-	if [ "$ua_os" = "Msys" ] || [ "$ua_os" = "Cygwin" ] ; then
-	    ua_binpostfix=".exe"
-	fi
-	ua_outfile="$ua_outfile$ua_binpostfix"
-
-	if ! check_writable "$ua_outfile"; then
-		die "unarchive error: cannot write to $ua_outfile"
-	fi
-
-	case "$ua_archivetype" in
-		tar.gz)
-			if have_binary tar; then
-				echo "==> using 'tar' to extract binary from archive"
-				< "$ua_infile" tar -Ozxf - "$ua_distname/$ua_distname$ua_binpostfix" > "$ua_outfile" \
-					|| die "tar has failed"
-			else
-				die "no binary on system for extracting tar files"
-			fi
-			;;
-		zip)
-			if have_binary unzip; then
-				echo "==> using 'unzip' to extract binary from archive"
-				unzip -p "$ua_infile" "$ua_distname/$ua_distname$ua_binpostfix" > "$ua_outfile" \
-					|| die "unzip has failed"
-			else
-				die "no installed method for extracting .zip archives"
-			fi
-			;;
-		*)
-			die "unrecognized archive type '$ua_archivetype'"
-	esac
-
-	chmod +x "$ua_outfile" || die "chmod has failed"
-}
-
-get_go_vars() {
-	if [ ! -z "$GOOS" ] && [ ! -z "$GOARCH" ]; then
-		printf "%s-%s" "$GOOS" "$GOARCH"
-	elif have_binary go; then
-		printf "%s-%s" "$($GOCC env GOOS)" "$($GOCC env GOARCH)"
-	else
-		die "no way of determining system GOOS and GOARCH\nPlease manually set GOOS and GOARCH then retry."
-	fi
-}
-
-mkurl() {
-	m_root="$1"
-	m_name="$2"
-	m_vers="$3"
-	m_archive="$4"
-	m_govars=$(get_go_vars) || die "could not get go env vars"
-
-	echo "https://ipfs.io$m_root/$m_name/$m_vers/${m_name}_${m_vers}_$m_govars.$m_archive"
-}
-
-distroot="$1"
-distname="$2"
-outpath="$3"
-version="$4"
-
-if [ -z "$distroot" ] || [ -z "$distname" ] || [ -z "$outpath" ] || [ -z "$version" ]; then
-	die "usage: dist_get <distroot> <distname> <outpath> <version>"
-fi
-
-case $version in
-	v*)
-		# correct input
-		;;
-	*)
-		echo "invalid version '$version'" >&2
-		die "versions must begin with 'v', for example: v0.4.0"
-		;;
-esac
-
-# TODO: don't depend on the go tool being installed to detect this
-goenv=$(get_go_vars) || die "could not get go env vars"
-
-case $goenv in
-	linux-*)
-		archive="tar.gz"
-		;;
-	darwin-*)
-		archive="tar.gz"
-		;;
-	windows-*)
-		archive="zip"
-		;;
-	freebsd-*)
-		archive="tar.gz"
-		;;
-	openbsd-*)
-		archive="tar.gz"
-		;;
-	*)
-		echo "unrecognized system environment: $goenv" >&2
-		die "currently only linux, darwin, windows and freebsd are supported by this script"
-esac
-
-
-mkdir -p bin/tmp
-
-url=$(mkurl "$distroot" "$distname" "$version" "$archive")
-tmpfi="bin/tmp/$distname.$archive"
-
-download "$url" "$tmpfi"
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-	die "failed to download $url to $tmpfi"
-fi
-
-unarchive "$archive" "$tmpfi" "$outpath" "$distname"
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-	die "failed to extract archive $tmpfi"
-fi