Converting a personal project

[Christopher Finazzo]

Hi guys, first time user here.

Although I do not have a particular book in mind to work on at this point, I'd like to use Standard's tools to convert a personal project of mine (Using `se create-draft` etc.). I tried to do this in the past just using `zip`, creating the appropriate directory structure by hand, but was unsuccessful.

I had to put the project aside for a few years as I was working on other things, but want to give it another look.

With that in mind, I want to make sure I can install the dependencies without disrupting my other environments and $PATH. Primarily, these are rbenv, nodenv, and TeX.

My project repo is located here and my dotfiles - including .zshrc - are at this URL.

I think the instructions should just work for me, but I'd like to double-check things first. Any advice or tips and tricks about how to get started are appreciated.

[Alex Cabal]

If you installed using pipx then it should create a venv automatically
so that the rest of your environment isn't affected.

On 12/9/20 9:43 AM, Christopher Finazzo wrote:
> Hi guys, first time user here.
>
> Although I do not have a particular book in mind to work on at this
> point, I'd like to use Standard's tools to convert a personal project of
> mine (Using `se create-draft` etc.). I tried to do this in the past just
> using `zip`, creating the appropriate directory structure by hand, but
> was unsuccessful.
>
> I had to put the project aside for a few years as I was working on other
> things, but want to give it another look.
>
> With that in mind, I want to make sure I can install the dependencies
> without disrupting my other environments and $PATH. Primarily, these are
> rbenv, nodenv, and TeX.
>
> My project repo is located here

> <https://github.com/chrisfinazzo/fdu-epub> and my dotfiles - including
> .zshrc - are at this <https://github.com/chrisfinazzo/dotfiles> URL.

>
> I think the instructions should just work for me, but I'd like to
> double-check things first. Any advice or tips and tricks about how to
> get started are appreciated.
>

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[Christopher Finazzo]

Thanks for clarifying, Alex - good to know.

[Christopher Finazzo]

Huh.

Although I've installed the tools and created a project, there seems to be either a bug in pipx or an issue with my environment.

zsh: /Users/Chris/.local/bin/se: bad interpreter: /Users/Chris/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/bin/python: no such file or directory

Can anyone confirm this using a version of Python from Homebrew?

[B Keith]

Well I just did a completely fresh install on my new computer and it worked fine using home-brew.

b

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[Christopher Finazzo]

Right...I think this one's on me.

For some reason, the macOS instructions for tools don't seem to include making sure the brewed Python is where it's supposed to be.

Tl;dr userpath is weird.

Can I just add this to my existing path with `export PATH=$PATH:/Users/Chris/.local/bin`?

[Robin Whittleton]

I honestly thought brew sorted this all out for you these days. I can’t see anything in brew info python / brew info pipx that says that paths need to be set manually. But if you find what’s needed, then make a suggestion for the necessary readme updates?

-Robin

On 19 Dec 2020, at 00:24, Christopher Finazzo <chris....@gmail.com> wrote:

Right...I think this one's on me.

For some reason, the macOS instructions for tools don't seem to include making sure the brewed Python is where it's supposed to be.

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[Christopher Finazzo]

Doing some more investigating, I can confirm that the pipx directories are in fact on my path, but still nothing.

I am setting the PATH variable as follows:

# Set the $PATH variable

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:$PATH

# Created by `userpath` on 2020-12-09 14:53:42

export PATH="$PATH:/Users/Chris/.local/bin"

[Robin Whittleton]

What’re the contents of your ~/.local/bin? E.g.:

$ ls -la ~/.local/bin/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  6 robin  staff  192 Dec 15 20:40 ./
drwx------  6 robin  staff  192 Nov 22 18:55 ../
lrwxr-xr-x  1 robin  staff   44 Apr  6  2020 ftfy@ -> /Users/robin/.local/pipx/venvs/ftfy/bin/ftfy
lrwxr-xr-x  1 robin  staff   49 Nov 22 18:48 py.test@ -> /Users/robin/.local/pipx/venvs/pytest/bin/py.test
lrwxr-xr-x  1 robin  staff   48 Nov 22 18:48 pytest@ -> /Users/robin/.local/pipx/venvs/pytest/bin/pytest
lrwxr-xr-x  1 robin  staff   52 Dec 15 20:40 se@ -> /Users/robin/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/bin/se

The se link is created by pipx on installation, so as long as ~/.local/bin is on PATH you should be good.

-Robin

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[Christopher Finazzo]

`ls -la ~/.local/bin/`

total 0

drwxr-xr-x  3 Chris  staff   96 Dec 11 10:17 .

drwxr-xr-x  5 Chris  staff  160 Dec 18 18:07 ..

lrwxr-xr-x  1 Chris  staff   52 Dec 11 10:17 se -> /Users/Chris/.local/pipx/venvs/standardebooks/bin/se

For completeness sake, `echo $PATH` looks like this:

/Users/Chris/.nodenv/shims:/Users/Chris/.rbenv/shims:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/TeX/texbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Users/Chris/.local/bin:/Users/Chris/.local/bin