So, is the answer to figure out how to optimize the ledger entries?
So if I had:
2013/1/1 Safeway
Expenses:Groceries $23.00
Liabilities:Chase Visa -$23.00
and I add:
account Expenses:Groceries
alias grocs
account Liabilities:Chase Visa
alias visa
should a sort give:
2013/1/1 Safeway
grocs $23.00 ; using the alias I just added
visa ; balance the transaction shortcut
This does open up the can of worms: how should a ledger file look?
is one better? when to add a bucket?
I guess I looked at documentation as the low hanging fruit, but failed
to figure out its build system in a day. It is unclear how welcome
little fixes are, and I get tired of making patches that get ignored.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Russell Adams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Craig,
>
> As much as I love ledger, I've moved my expenses back to Excel using a
> giant T chart. I spent about 3 months trying to write a database
> oriented ledger-like expense reporting system, and failed miserably at
> the UI layer. So I wouldn't get any use out of the tool you propose.
>
> Ledger's major flexibility is the text file format and the ability to
> hand craft optimized ledgers. That is also it's downside in large
> volumes of verbose (non-optimal) transactions quickly become unwieldy.
>
> Sorting and narrowing (queries) are both related to data management,
> and I'm not sure how that should be accomplished in the text files
> while staying synchronized with version control tools.
>
> I think a simple sort that may break hand optimized ledgers would be
> ok if it raised an error on a break (ie: if txn count and balances
> changed after sort, raise error). A tool like that should be easy to
> implement.
>
> Otherwise it comes back to the debate on txn storage.
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:19:28AM -0700, Craig Earls wrote:
>> So, is there any interest in this project? If not I won't waste my time.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > My transactions are also all atomic. With the exception of a few
>> > virtual transactions at the top order does no matter.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Russell Adams
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> I can see the point where commands which apply across many
>> >> transactions (a manual optimization) are broken by sorting. My data
>> >> has always been verbose and each txn is atomic, so sorting wasn't an
>> >> issue.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >
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