Great summary, very valuable for new users, thank you Mariano. Perhaps you could paste your post just as it is (or even simply link to it) here <https://beancount.github.io/docs/installing_beancount.html>. The source is here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FqyrTPwiHVLyncWTf3v5TcooCu9z5JRX8Nm41lVZi0U/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.rs27hvxo0wyl> which you could ask Martin for edit access to.
On Friday, October 18, 2024 at 4:35:38 PM UTC-7 Mariano Draghi wrote: > The successor to bean-report is beanquery. > At one point (with v2) it was part of Beancount, but now it's an > independent tool. It's much more powerful and flexible than bean-report. > > You can install beanquery from here: > https://pypi.org/project/beanquery/ > > The problem is, the only documentation that exists is from when Martin was > experimenting with the idea and publishing the first versions/drafts: > https://beancount.github.io/docs/beancount_query_language.html > > Most of what is written there is still valid, but beanquery has grown > quite a bit since then, and the documentation for all the new features is > basically non-existent, unless you start digging in this mailing list and > in GitHub issues. > > The release of Beancount v3 in its current form somehow made things > significantly more difficult for new users like you, because there are lots > of things that are not documented, or have incomplete documentation. The > maintainers of each subproject don't have much time these days, and we as a > community have not stepped in to help with that either. > > So IMO you have two options: > a) keep using beancount v3, install beanquery, and learn a bit of BQL > (Beancount Qurey Language) from the doc I linked above, and also searching > here in the mailing this. This is the officially recommended path. > Beancount v3 and Beanquery are the future, anyway. But right now there are > several rough edges, and the learning curve is a bit steeper than it > should, mainly because the lack of documentation and examples > b) install beancount v2, which includes bean-report (and the first version > of beanquery build-in), use that, and revisit the v3 ecosystem in a few > months. If you go down this path, please be aware that beancount v2 is EOL, > so to speak, and it won't receive any new features or improvements at this > point. But it still works perfectly fine. > > I'm still using Beancount v2 because I can't use Beancount without Fava. > And yes, I know it's technically possible (and not that difficult) to > install Beancount v3 and Fava in separate virtual environments sharing the > same files, but it's not that Beancount v3 is receiving lots and lots of > features and is in active development either, so there's really no > incentive for me to change my perfectly working workflow with Beancount v2 > + Fava. > > Hope that helps! > > > El Friday, October 18, 2024 a la(s) 7:57:02 PM UTC-3, Jason Crews > (the1gofer) escribió: > >> How do I generate reports now? All documentation points to bean report. >> at least that I can find. >> >> On Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 2:34:35 PM UTC-7 bl...@furius.ca wrote: >> >>> bean-report and bean-web are gone. >>> Deprecated, removed from the 3.x line. >>> (Search the mailing-list) >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 4:21 PM Jason Crews (the1gofer) < >>> jason...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Everyone, >>>> >>>> I've tried installing bean count on a m1 macbook, and a m2 mac mini, >>>> and haven't had much luck. The documentation seems pretty old, so I'm not >>>> sure what to try. >>>> >>>> I tried installing with >>>> >>>> sudo -H python3 -m pip install beancount >>>> >>>> and >>>> >>>> sudo -H python3 -m pip install git+ >>>> https://github.com/beancount/beancount#egg=beancount >>>> >>>> which didn't work both giving me the error message >>>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3: No module >>>> named pip >>>> >>>> I then tried >>>> >>>> sudo -H python3.9 -m pip install beancount >>>> >>>> which seemed to finsih without errors. I'm even able to use >>>> bean-check. However, using bean-report --help or web-bean both give the >>>> follwoing >>>> >>>> zsh: command not found: bean-report >>>> >>>> and >>>> >>>> zsh: command not found: web-bean >>>> >>>> Googling either of those has no results. >>>> >>>> I also tried brew install beancount, even though that's not in the >>>> documentation, and nothing changed. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions? I've been experimenting with ledger and like it, but >>>> would like the better features found in bean count. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> 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 beancount+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2f077dec-2064-4d31-bf90-a3aec6b94deen%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2f077dec-2064-4d31-bf90-a3aec6b94deen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- 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 beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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