How to install MAA

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

Paths onto a machine

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

Start from the support matrix. It narrows over time, and assumptions made years ago often no longer hold.

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.

What this domain is

Only text is published from this domain. Each project remains exactly where its authors put it.

Keeping environments clean

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