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?

The Groovy project managers pitch Groovy as a "JVM language", meaning "JVM only", and treat other possible platforms for Groovy, including a Go-based edition, as threats to their own control of Groovy the brand. They actively work to promote the JVM, and criticize other platforms. They're unlikely, therefore, to bother resolving the naming conflict with Golang. — Vorg van Geir, Dec 31 '14 at 13:05

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-14T16:35:11.693

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

You find trace of that folder in:

[ "$GVM_DEST" = "$HOME" ] && GVM_NAME=".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GVM is superseded by http://sdkman.io/.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.

edited May 14 '16 at 16:35

answered Oct 12 '14 at 12:42

VonC

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Has anyone attempted to get Groovy to address the conflict? Your first link shows that the Go tool came first, but both links are addressed at the Go tool. – andlabs Oct 12 '14 at 16:59
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@Jayan Thank you. I have edited the answer accordingly. – VonC May 14 '16 at 16:35
@VonC: great. Cleared my answer :) – Jayan May 14 '16 at 16:37

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