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Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations

Posted Sep 11, 2012 13:55 UTC (Tue) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642)
In reply to: Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations by mathstuf
Parent article: LinuxCon: funding development

hledgerweb really supports only a small fraction of what ledger can do, and the most important thing is an extra-ledger issue: it needs to use a repository system on the backend for it to be useful at all to Conservancy.

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Posted Sep 11, 2012 18:40 UTC (Tue) by clint (subscriber, #7076) [Link]

There is a somewhat-low-priority project to add an optional filestore backend to hledger-lib (which would introduce support for Git, Darcs, and Mercurial). Presumably when ledger 4 is rewritten in Haskell, it could do the same thing.

Conservancy runs only Free Software for its own operations

Posted Sep 16, 2012 15:53 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I'd certainly be interested in a git-backed hledger. I store my files as:

main.journal # Include $year.journal
$year.journal # Set the year, include $year/$month.journal
$year/$month.journal # Sorted by effective date then by account

in git. Having hledger do auto-commit when things balance would be great since the commits tend to just have messages like "Receipts up to $date" and "Reconcile with $account up to $date" anyway.