How to install diff-so-fancy

Diff-so-fancy is developer utility. This page carries no procedure of its own; it records what the project is and what to look at before touching it.

Distribution in practice

In practice this means one of a handful of routes: an operating system package index, a registry tied to a language, a version manager, or a source tree built with the project's own tooling. Which one applies is decided by the platform and by the maintainers.

Who is behind it

Direction comes from the people who write the code. Their decisions on releases and support are the ones that matter.

Worth confirming early

Confirm the platform still falls inside the supported range. Projects of this kind move quickly, and older systems tend to be dropped with little ceremony.

Interpreting what you see

Surprises here are rarely the project's fault. Ordering inside the environment decides which copy wins, and that ordering is easy to get wrong.

About these notes

This domain carries reading notes only. Nothing is stored or re-published here, and every project remains where its authors placed it.

On reading release notes

Release notes are the cheapest way to catch a breaking change before it surprises you. They usually list platform shifts and removed defaults in the first few lines.