I recently upgraded to hledger 1.50. Before I did so, however, I recalled a question on the Plain Text Accounting site about running hledger from GitHub main. The idea, as I understand it, is that I would run the program remotely and so automatically would be using the latest version available on GitHub.
This is a solution that looks like it would work well for many people. In my case, I will wait before switching. Currently, I use brew to do my hledger upgrading. Right now, brew is working just fine, with the only difficulty being that I need to remember to run brew upgrade when there is a new version of hledger. And it’s only a slight difficulty remembering because when I see that there is a new version of hledger, I get a warm, tingly feeling, with the result that I tend not to forget.
One additional advantage of using brew is that it upgrades a host of other programs at the same time it does hledger, so it’s a good way to keep some of my other programs up to date.
For my latest upgrade, then, brew handled the task. However, I am interested to see what the future holds for alternatives for running hledger such as mentioned above.