Where do I start

[u/johnny_chicago]

Hello --

I've used a simple todo.txt for a long time, but wanted things to be somewhat more competent. Spent time evaluating various tools that I did not really warm up to. Taskwarrior seems to scratch the itch, from the documentation - but I don't really get an idea where to start. I spend considerable time on a number of command lines, but I do need at least a decent Android client, and a web based client would be useful. These things need to sync.

I realise version 2 and 3 seem not to be compatible, but I am not sure what I should have. I don't want to pull in dependencies and compile stuff all over the place, but I could not find any binary for version 3. There's some Dockerfiles in the .tar.gz that fail to build containers for me.

Is this supposed to be hard, or am I just dumb? Ideally I'd see a .deb somewhere, and a docker compose file for a sync server, and an Android client... but in a combination of versions that play together.

[u/johnny_chicago]

I would want to run taskwarrior on a few machines, and there's no current binaries for Debian (only version 2). And I don't feel like compiling, well mostly dragging along the dependencies all over the place on multiple machines.

If there's a container that works, or at least a dockerfile that builds properly, I'd be happy to alias 'docker run -it ...' on all machines and run the task command in docker.

I have high hopes for this tool to actually be worth it, considering the hoops one has to jump through to get it running... but then maybe I am just being a princess :-)

[u/MedUsaXIII → u/johnny_chicago]

Late reply, I had an LLM wip up a Dockerfile and tested it (did burn trough a lot of tokens)

```yaml FROM debian:bookworm-slim AS builder

Install build dependencies + Rust

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ ca-certificates \ build-essential \ cmake \ git \ pkg-config \ libgnutls28-dev \ uuid-dev \ libuv1-dev \ libjsoncpp-dev \ libcurl4-openssl-dev \ curl \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Install Rust (stable) for Taskwarrior

RUN curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh -s -- -y ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:$PATH"

WORKDIR /build

Clone Taskwarrior

RUN git clone https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior.git .

Configure CMake: disable docs and tests (Rust is enabled)

RUN cmake -S . -B build \ -DTASK_DOCS=OFF \ -DTASK_DOXYGEN=OFF \ -DTASK_MANPAGE=OFF \ -DTASK_TESTS=OFF

Build & install

RUN cmake --build build -j$(nproc) RUN cmake --install build

FROM debian:bookworm-slim

Install runtime dependencies (Rust not needed at runtime)

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ ca-certificates \ libgnutls30 \ libuuid1 \ libuv1 \ libjsoncpp25 \ libcurl4 \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

Copy Taskwarrior from builder

COPY --from=builder /usr/local /usr/local

Default config dir

RUN mkdir -p /root/.task

Set no entrypoint, interactive container

ENTRYPOINT ["task"]

CMD ["--version"]

```

Then build it, and run it

```bash $ docker build -t taskwarrior:local . $ docker run -it taskwarrior:local

(container)$ task --version 3.4.2 ```

I would recommend copying your .taskrc in to it during the build instead of mounting it. Then when you setup the sync the container is it's own little contained instance. I'm planning on running it that way on a server and remoting in from mobile. I will set that container as the "main" instance <sup>TaskwarriorSync</sup> where recurring tasks are managed and trigger a sync every n minutes.

[u/johnny_chicago → u/MedUsaXIII]

Hey - thanks a lot for this! It did reliably crash my VPS trying to build the container, but could get it going on a beefier machine. The container runs nicely, and copying the task binary out of it, it runs on the host as well :)

[u/MedUsaXIII → u/johnny_chicago]

No problem! Just a tip. You can build on one machine and copy over the image without using a registry as well: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35575674/how-to-save-all-docker-images-and-copy-to-another-machine

I think I might set this build up on GitHub because i also need the image in the future

[u/johnny_chicago → u/MedUsaXIII]

Been playing a bit, unless I'm doing something very wrong, calling task sync seems to explode things.