On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:37:16 -0400
Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote:
> On this list and in the documents I've shared with you I've argued and
> shown specific examples how the lack of inventory booking in Ledger's
> model offers little support for entering a correct replication of
> investment trades and calculate capital gains incorrectly.
Fair-enough, although inventory booking is not something I'n personally
interested in.
> That's just because nobody packaged it for Debian.
OK.
Do you have any estimation about the size of Beancount user base?
> I've already received far more contributions and corrections than in
> 10 entire years of traditional rst-based documentation for all my
> other projects combined.
That's nice to hear and I'm glad about it.
> Most often in the OSS community, people don't contribute to docs. So
> far the experiment is paying off handsomely and I have felt little to
> desire to retreat to my old tools. If anything, it has encouraged me
> to write more. I love Google Docs.
Cool. ;)
> Things change; adapt yourself. People are reluctant to change. Realize
> this. The world used to be desktops, then it was mostly all laptops,
> and by now it's mostly devices.
I still believe that the point that e.g. majority of people today use
mobile devices does it mean it makes them more useful/convenient.
In another mailing list we discuss e.g. nntp vs mailing lists and web
forums, and although many consider web forums 'modern', I have many
doubts accepting them as better solution than old-fashioned nntp groups
and even for mailing lists I use Gmane and do not have intention for
'adapt'.
Finally, (many of) those 'modern users' want to see GUI and web all
around and here we're talking about cli stuff. :-)
> You can highlight text, right-click and add a comment right there in
> your browser, and you automatically get an email notification later
> on. How unnatural can this possibly be?
The point is that when I *read* I do not want to bother with *editing*
and when I *write* I want to use my preferred tools (editor) and not
suboptimal tools (like the one provided by Google docs).
> If what you have is an ideological problem with the software and the
> fact it's hosted at Google, I have no time for this. I'm interested
> in finding solutions to build accounting software via text files, I'm
> not on a mission to expand the GNU universe.
No ideology here in case for Google docs - e.g. I preferred old UI for
google groups, but I don't like the present one - but I simply prefer
having source document in some open markup (asciidoc, markdown, reST)
which is then automagically rendered to desired output(s).
> I don't know about a specific comparison, but with the most hardcore
> checks I process my 8 years of data in about under 2 seconds on a
> 2008 macbook laptop running Linux.
I must say that it makes me curious...running e.g.
$ ledger -M register -f personal.dat Expenses:Auto:Gorivo
to find out about car's expenses for fuel on the file imported from
Gnucash with the following stats:
$ ledger -f personal.dat stats
Time period: 10-Oct-31 to 14-Dec-15 (1506 days)
Files these postings came from:
/home/gour/tmp/ledger/personal.dat
Unique payees: 2159
Unique accounts: 144
Number of postings: 7240 (4.8 per day)
Uncleared postings: 0
Days since last post: -96
Posts in last 7 days: 44
Posts in last 30 days: 286
Posts seen this month: 50
(there are few scheduled transactions till the end of the year)
consumes:
2.65user 0.00system 0:02.84elapsed 93%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 12940maxresident)k
6600inputs+0outputs (4major+3952minor)pagefaults 0swaps
on my i7 860 @2.8GHz cpu on the desktop having 16G.
Sincerely,
Gour
--
As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water,
even one of the roaming senses on which the mind
focuses can carry away a man's intelligence.
--
---
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/d/optout.
