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The nicest thing about Hledger and the original[1] is the extremely simple file format. It allows you to write your own pretty easily (especially if you stick t
by howeyc 12y ago
The nicest thing about Hledger and the original[1] is the extremely simple file format. It allows you to write your own pretty easily (especially if you stick to the very simple format of a bunch of transactions). I wrote one for my use [2].
[1] http://ledger-cli.org/ http://ledger-cli.org/
[2] https://github.com/howeyc/ledger https://github.com/howeyc/ledger
- A_COMPUTER 12y agoif you have used both, can you go over why someone might want to choose one over the other? I suppose since they share the same file format, it shouldn't be that hard to switch between them.
- AdamGibbins 12y agoThere's also beancount and abandon, both use similar/the same data format.
- smichael 12y agohledger (http://hledger.org http://hledger.org) author here. Here's what I wrote about this a few years back: http://hledger.org/faq.html#hledger-and-ledger http://hledger.org/faq.html#hledger-and-ledger . One user said "hledger is an easier-to-use implementation of the ledger accounting system". The basic file format is the same, but there are differences - with a little care you can keep a file that works with both. Abandon and beancount's file formats are more different. I'm happy to answer questions here or on #hledger. I've been using and growing hledger steadily since 2007; I just released 0.24 and we are thinking about a 1.0 one of these months.