Heya,
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 02:24:04AM -0700, Justus Pendleton wrote:
> Isn't the link_statements plugin just a regular beancount plugin that
> can be used even if you don't use fava? What would be the difference
> between that plugin and a beancount native way? I'm not quite
> following what you want here; could you elaborate?
sure. So, I see the following issues with the link_statements plugin:
- it is not distributed with beancount, so while the documents option is
built-in (hinting at the fact that that's the official way of linking
documents to txns), link_statements seems to be a sub-par / not
supported
-> this would be easy to solve if Martin is OK with distributing it as
part of Beancount, but I think a more general discussion about what
are the requirements for linking documents to different elements of
the Beancount data model, which is what I'm trying (probably badly,
sorry about that) to start here
- it is not alternative to document entries. It requires you to have
free-floating document entries in your global ledger and then
heuristically associate them to transactions/postings
-> this feels awkward. A receipt for the grocery store does not belong
to the daily flow of transactions happening that day. It really
belong to a transactions. This smell as if we need a more
expressive way of informing Beancount of which metadata keys point
to documents, or something such
- it is not generic (not all documents are "statements")
-> this is a minor point, which looks like will be fixed soon
Hope this clarifies,
Cheers
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