Coexistence of Groovy- and Go gvm

Question

I have Groovy GVM installed. Trying to install the Golang version gave

ERROR: Already installed!

The problem is that ~/.gvm already exists.

How do/should you make them both coexist today?

Are there any plans to resolve this conflict?

Answer 1

Issue 82 and issue 103 seem to show there is no immediate plan to resolve that collision.

You find trace of that folder in:

• binscripts/gvm-installer:

  [ "$GVM_DEST" = "$HOME" ] && GVM_NAME=".gvm"
  

• bin/gvm

  [[ -s "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm"
  

You would need to patch the all Go GVM program to make sure .gvm isn't used.

Update March 2016: as mentioned in issue 82:

GVM is superseded by http://sdkman.io/. gvm command became sdk.