How to install direnv

Direnv is developer utility. The codebase is maintained by its own authors rather than by a vendor.

About the project

Direnv is developer utility. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

The project is run by its own contributors rather than by a company. Release cadence, supported platforms and documentation are all decided by the team behind it.

How releases reach a machine

There is no single universal route here. Maintainers usually describe the supported options themselves, and the choice varies between platforms and between releases.

Check compatibility first

Look at the supported versions before anything else. Projects narrow their platform range over time, and older systems can be dropped without much warning.

Checking the result

If the outcome differs from what you expected, the cause is nearly always resolution rather than the project itself — an older copy, a different channel, or a stale cache.

A note about this domain

This is a notes-only domain. Projects remain documented by their own authors.