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:
- "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. - set your PYTHONPATH to be able to import directly from the tree. Hope this helps, On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 02:37 Eric Altendorf <[email protected]> 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 <[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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