Hi all,
I'm a newbie and hoping to use ledger to keep track of my finances.
I've been reading a lot lately about accounting mainly and just now when I
felt ready to give it all a practical try I ended up being unable to do so
:-s
Let me explain. In reading this mailing list I recently noticed that I
should be using ledger 3.0 not 2.6.3 which got installed from the fedora
16 repo.
Apperenltly 2.6.3 is no longer developed, aka., dead. Support is lacking in
favor of version 3.0 and a lot of scripts from 2.6.3 would apparently need
changing when switching to 3.0.
Hence I concluded to install 3.0 and remove 2.6.3 before starting my
practical experiments.
But this turned out to be the start of a whole slew of problems and
confusions.
I had noticed that the website mentions documentation for 2.6.3 and 3.0;
seeing that I had originally installed 2.6.3 from the fedora 16 repo I had
read the 2.6.3 documentation.
Casually discarding the 3.0 documentation.
Now I understand that I should really be using version 3.0 instead of
2.6.3, so I figured I should fist get it installed ...
Which turns out isn't as easy as I thought it would be.
Going by a number of sources of information I only got very confused :-s
1) the website that mentions version 2.6.3 and 3.0
2) the readme.txt on github in the next branch that mentions the 'release',
'current', 'beta' and 'alpha' release and that the 'next' branch is the
'bleeding edge' and that I should be using the beta.
But how does the version 3.0 as mentioned on the website documentation fit
in to this picture of the branches of the git repository?
There is a tag called version 2.6.3, but no tag nor branch named 3.0.
+ So If I want to install 3.0 but still have a fairly stable version,
i.e. not the next branch which apparently breaks from time to time
which is unavoidable because its the bleeding edge.
Then what branch or tag do I need to checkout?
+ To which branch or tag does the 3.0 documentation of the website
correspond?
- The 'current' release; maint branch?
- The 'beta' release; master branch?
- The 'alpha' release; next branch?
I ask because I'm a user not a developer and I when I read the 3.0
documentation I hope to be using the version of ledger to which it
corresponds, so that I'll be able to use the new found 3.0 knowledge.
Also Section 15 of the 3.0 documentation is still empty which is why I
suspect that 3.0 isn't quite mature yet? So maybe I, as a simple user that
simply want to use a stable ledger, should still use the 2.6.3 version that
got installed from the fedora repo? And wait till 3.0 is a bit more mature?
For now I'll go ahead with version 2.6.3 ...
With kind regards,
A willing future user of ledger,
Jeroen
