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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