Thank you for the comments Petr and Red! I think the bigger challenge I'll need to tackle immediately is being disciplined enough to use the tools regularly (and achieve the goal on Red's blog - make updates to my ledger a <1 minute task). :)
So perhaps v2 is the easier place for me to get started and build my habits. Once that's done, I suspect it won't take too much effort to upgrade to v3 when the time comes. Thanks, Ananth On Thursday, 2 January 2025 at 13:06:37 UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > From my experience: I started with Beancount v2 about 2 years ago. If I'm > not mistaken, most of the docs are still referencing v2, so for a beginner > it may be a good option for initial exploration. > > Once I started to invest into automation (using both CLI tools and > Beancount as a Python library), I moved to v3 as it is meant to be the > future (pre-built wheels are also nice). I think v2 is frozen and receives > no further updates. > > Best regard, > Petr > > Dne čt 2. 1. 2025 19:35 uživatel Red S <[email protected]> napsal: > >> *I'm a new user, and am unsure if I should start building my >> scripts/tools around v2 or v3. Any advice? Any top of mind pros/cons to >> either choice?* >> >> To build some familiarity with the state, I spent the last ~1 week >> reading docs and code from the master branch of beancount, beangulp and >> Red's importers (and skimmed through a bunch of other repos as well). It >> seems to me like everyone's contributions (e.g. Red's importers, Jeremy's >> beancount-import) are all based on Beancount v2, unless I missed something. >> >> >> IMHO, it’s still is a very valid question for the reasons you mentioned. >> Martin started recommending v3 over v2 >> <https://groups.google.com/g/beancount/c/LVBQ4cD0PYc/m/2GQEqrIEBgAJ> >> ~1.5 years ago. That thread has some good reasons for picking v3. As a >> personal data point, I still haven’t upgraded because the ecosystem hasn’t >> fully yet, and I have zero time to fix my workflow issues or find gaps. >> Although someone posted just a few days ago that Fava now supports v3. >> Reds-importers will support it as soon as I get some time or someone >> contributes. >> >> So what should a new user pick? I don’t mean to oppose Martin’s >> recommendation, but IMHO, new users need to freely explore the ecosystem to >> understand their needs and workflows, and for that reason, I’d say v2 would >> be the better option right now, though that might change very soon. The >> good news is, upgrading to v3 in the future should be very easy because the >> ecosystem will eventually fully support it. >> >> Hope that helps. Welcome, and good luck! >> >> >> -- >> 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 visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/0e41596f-e674-4aae-a365-9f52144302cdn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/0e41596f-e674-4aae-a365-9f52144302cdn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/e390698e-7317-4b10-a636-bf445e77f23cn%40googlegroups.com.
