On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 03:09:34AM -0700, Andre Engelbrecht wrote: > *Disclosure*: I've converted a couple of people from using webapps or > spreadsheets to use ledger. They love ledger despite some of the > nuance. I've been trying to move them over to beancount, but having a > bit harder time because of the python dependency. Fava and being able > to run it locally has been a great driver to have people at least > consider installing python and giving beancount a test run.
Same for me. I've converted some people to Beancount thanks to the fact that "pip install beancount" was simple enough (although indeed still a barrier for non-dev people) for them to install. Bazel will be a much higher barrier for people to install/use Beancount. I totally understand switching to it from a dev point of view, but it would be great to maintain the ability to install via pip. I've used pypi to ship weird python code depending on a huge java bundle, and I know it works well. If there is a way to ship (and then select) static binaries for the non-Python parts for multiple architectures (the most popular ones) via pip, I think it'd be totally worth it in terms of user base. Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20200706115807.atdlpr3oai3guake%40upsilon.cc.
