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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 8:35 PM Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 15, 2023, 11:06 Eric Altendorf <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 4:45 PM Martin Blais <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>>> 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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