Also: is any of this affected by v3? It doesn't look like it to me based on my limited understanding.
On Monday, November 16, 2020 at 6:02:16 PM UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > First off, thank you so much for such a great tool! > One challenge I haven't been able to solve yet with beancount is tracking > basis for my US 401k - average cost booking. > > I did quite a bit of digging into the code, TODOs, and the mailing list. I > actually implemented average cost booking on augmentation and reduction as > a plugin, but it's not possible with just a plugin due to booking > running before plugins do (makes sense- having resolved lots is very > useful). > > My summary from investigations: > > - It's > <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/SP5KeksHbCk/m/aIMfFDMRBQAJ> > been > <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/72PN-d-je40/m/lHQZf6O0CQAJ> > asked > <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/dOrCPTbHZKY/m/vhPipQaVAQAJ> a > fair bit on the mailing list. > - The best workaround currently is to use the "NONE" booking method > and manually summarize it everywhere you need to. Martin has a decent > workaround here. > <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/TjOnum255Ps/m/hDFkdqCaAwAJ> I > wrote a plugin to automate some parts of Martin's > - Since it touches the heart of the balance update mechanism it could > break many things if done without care. Martin previously (understandably) > would rather not accept it as a contribution. > <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/SP5KeksHbCk/m/bOXNBFOjAwAJ> > > Martin: Do you still feel the same way? I am wondering if perhaps you'd > want contributions of unit tests for it? I'd love to do anything I can to > help get AVERAGE booking going, my 401k has a lot of history and > contributions so it's a big chore to track. > > Thanks! > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/2c3916db-e9ea-482c-a7f6-e5c9bfa705b5n%40googlegroups.com.
