Oh, grepping around in the source reveals a note about Fava replacing bean-web? (bean-web is still what the docs discuss)
Sorry -- you've written such extensive and well-written documentation I've been taking it as truth :) On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 7:26 PM Eric Altendorf <ericaltend...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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