Can't do side-by-side installations? about install

[rashil2000]

Scoop checks for the availability of the scoop command before installing. You can remove the ~\scoop\shims directory from your PATH variable so that it is not found.

[milnak]

wont that end up changing $env:PATH to have the local folder though? I don't want that -- I want this folder to work independently.

One thing I was thinking would be that scoop would check for a .scoop folder in the current directory (or any parent directory), and if it exists, it would use that folder (rather than ~/scoop) for all of its configuration and data.

This way one could have a repo like:

c:\my_project
  \.git
  \.scoop
  \src

and within c:\my_project\src run scoop install git (or whatever else) and get a git installed solely for the c:\my_project subfolder.

[rashil2000]

You can put the Scoop folder you want above the existing one in env:PATH's priority