Installation

[mstruebing]

Installation of asdf is hard and error prone, let's try to find an easier way to install and use this tool on all platforms.

[aweris]

asdf uses loads asdf.sh in your shell to provide the asdf command. The asdf install script generates this file.
You can also install asdf manually by cloning the repository and sourcing asdf.sh in your shell.

We could use this approach to install asdf in a separate directory and then source it in the shell with a wrapper
script. This would allow us to install and maintain asdf in a separate directory and not pollute the user's home directory.

[aweris]

For this wrapper script to work, you need to have the following installed:

• Define the avm home directory
• Clean up existing ASDF_BIN and ASDF_USER_SHIMS from path
• Export new ASDF_DIR and ASDF_DATA_DIR to point to the avm directory for asdf source

With the above in place, you can now install asdf without polluting your existing environment.