How to install gastown

Gastown is developer utility. Treat this as an orientation note. Anything prescriptive should come from the maintainers directly.

How it gets there

Expect differences between platforms. The same project may reach one system through a package index and another through a source build.

Who is behind it

The project is self-governed. Whoever maintains it chooses what ships and when, and writes the accompanying material.

Prior checks

Check platform support first. Recent work in this space generally assumes a current runtime and a reasonably modern system.

Making sense of the result

Most unexpected behaviour traces back to resolution rather than to the project. An older copy sitting earlier in the path, or a version manager pointing somewhere else, will do it every time.

Scope of this site

These pages exist as notes. No files are hosted, and no project material is reproduced on this domain.

Keeping environments clean

Isolating environments, whether with a version manager or per-project directories, removes a whole category of confusing behaviour later on.