On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 08:44:20AM -0800, Simon Michael wrote: > Related to naming.. what do we call this whole topic, anyway ? Stefano > used the phrase "command-line accounting". But we have curses and web > GUIs too. "Plain-text accounting" ? Pretty soon we'll probably support > some non-text storage format. "Ledger clones" ? Too narrow. Aside: in > conversation, I use "ledger-likes" for things similar to but not > necessarily compatible with Ledger (ledger, hledger beancount, abandon, > penny) and "*ledger" for very compatible ledger-likes (ledger, hledger). > > Any thoughts ?
I believe I've first seen the usage of "CLI accounting" to refer generically to the ledger/hledger/beancount/etc. community in some of Martin Blais' design documents for beancount. I don't think it's a very appropriate term either (for the same reasons you mentioned), and IIRC I briefly discussed naming with Martin back then, although only in private mail. I do agree with both Martin and you that we do need a generic expression to characterize this amazing community. So I just went along with Martin's lead in my previous mail, for the sake of simplicity :-) Now, if we're back to the drawing board (and hence opening the bikeshedding gates!), I think the most accurate would indeed be "plain text accounting". Plain text is the most distinguishing trait of what we're collectively doing here. We might end up having *additional* non text-based storage formats, but having only those will profoundly change the target public and, hence, the community itself I believe. Other traits (and in particular CLI approaches) are less defining. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . z...@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . . . . @zacchiro . . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- --- 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
