Martin, thanks for your response. Will definitely take a look at the new input syntax and get back to you.
Mark, do you have any plans to share the RoR app? About desktop app v/s web app, I guess I should explain why I find the former easier to develop. I want to develop interactive reports where user can change parameters or drill-down to more details, or show bar charts and pie-charts, etc. There could be other forms of interaction which I haven't thought through fully yet. For example, editing amounts right inside the app and propagating the changes back to the ledger file. Now, compared to a desktop app, a web app has the added complexity of a separate runtime (Javascript) and an asynchronous channel (http) between UI and backend. While there are frameworks to mitigate this complexity, and the problems are surmountable, the overall complexity is still higher than that of a desktop-app. This complexity is worth the trouble if several people are going to use the same app + same input files *simultaneously*. However, I don't see that happening often in the case of an accounting package for a small firm / personal use. The collaboration if any, can still happen over version control systems like Git or bazaar (since the input files are plain-text). -- *Harshad RJ <http://lavadip.com>* -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
