Thanks. make & pip install worked fine. can run bean-check. Still doesn't seem to be building some of the tools, e.g., `bean-web` is still missing:
beancount$ ls bin bean-check bean-doctor bean-example bean-format BUILD treeify do i still need to do something with setup.py like in v2? On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 5:10 PM Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 06:00 Eric Altendorf <ericaltend...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 2:27 PM Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: >> >>> Precisely reliable and reproducible packaging and instructions that work >>> for everyone all the time are impossible tasks in my experience and I tried >>> for 25 years and eventually gave up. Too many environments, to many >>> different users and setups. I keep it simple for dev which I think is the >>> key, best is to use it like that to get the freshest. Other people do >>> packaging. Packages will inevitably be slightly older. Here's the gist: >>> >> >> Sure. I don't think I'm complaining about the install not working in >> weird corner cases or anything like that. Mostly remarking that the >> documentation is incorrect/broken/misleading in case you want to fix it for >> the next person who comes along. >> >> - "make build" will compile a .so in place (in the tree where you can >>> import it). Needs a C compiler with Python dev headers and library, bison >>> and flex. >>> >> >> The v3 install instructions that I found said to use Bazel, not make. Is >> Bazel just wrapping make here? Is there some reason to use make directly? >> > > Ignore bazel, this is work in progress you don't need. V3 works fine with > the Python/c parser. There will also be a warning when you run about > missing that library, ignore that too. > > > >> >>> - set your PYTHONPATH to be able to import directly from the tree. >>> >> >> I'll do this with a venv to manage and isolate the dependencies and path >> management (which, FYI, if you wanted a hermetic and 100% reproducible >> build setup, would probably be the way to go, although I'm hardly an expert >> on that, and the last thing I want to do is debate your package's build >> setup :). >> > > Knock yourself out, > pip install . into your venv should work. > > >> Hope this helps, >>> >> >> Thanks! :) >> >> eric >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 02:37 Eric Altendorf <ericaltend...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Aha, looks like this is the page: >>>> https://beancount.github.io/docs/installing_beancount_v3.html >>>> >>>> I'll work from that. Just sharing the FYI that some of the install >>>> instructions / links seem to be misleading. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 10:19 AM Eric Altendorf < >>>> ericaltend...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 8:35 PM Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 11:06 Eric Altendorf <ericaltend...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:45 PM Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> v3 > v2 >>>>>>>> No less stable; less overall code, many parts moved to subprojects >>>>>>>> that have been more actively developed. Some c++ bit present but not >>>>>>>> used >>>>>>>> in the main loop. >>>>>>>> Use v3. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Cool. FWIW, https://beancount.github.io/ still says v3 "is >>>>>>> unstable and you want to use version 2 below". >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> All types of users, this is largely for non technical users. It's >>>>>> stable enough for you. I try not to commit build breaking changes (lots >>>>>> of >>>>>> tests). >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> OK. Looks like `apt install` just gives me v2, so I removed that and >>>>> I'm back to installing from source. I'd like to install for dev, in case >>>>> I >>>>> want to experiment with writing my own booking algorithm. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> And https://beancount.github.io/docs/installing_beancount.html says >>>>>>> it is instructions for installing v2. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also I tried following the "Installing for Development" instructions >>>>>>> there, running git clone, then `sudo python3 setup.py develop` and >>>>>>> `python3 >>>>>>> setup.py build_ext -i` and this produced a broken install. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> This is for development, in just modify your PYTHONPATH to include >>>>>> the repo. See beancount/etc/env >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, I think I'm missing something more basic; things were very >>>>> broken just following the instructions. I do notice there is a Makefile >>>>> in >>>>> the directory, is running `make` supposed to be part of the >>>>> install-from-source or install-for-dev process? >>>>> >>>>> The instructions just say to run setup.py but that doesn't seem to do >>>>> much. >>>>> >>>>> I'm also not sure if I'm even following the right instructions since, >>>>> as I mentioned, the document itself says it's for installing v2, and the >>>>> link to instructions for installing v3 is broken (links to >>>>> https://beancount.github.io/docs/installing_beancount_v3.md ) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Backing out of that and just running `apt install beancount` worked >>>>>>> fine though :-D >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> (Apologies for the little warning in every invocation.) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 07:42 Eric Altendorf <ericaltend...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'd like to get started with Beancount, and it wasn't clear to me >>>>>>>>> if the docs have been updated recently. 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