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hledger project notes
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* inspiration
"...simplicity of design was the most essential, guiding principle.
Clarity of concepts, economy of features, efficiency and reliability of
implementations were its consequences." --Niklaus Wirth
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own
skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids
clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
"I was hesitating to cross the street in Edinburgh one day, and these two
little old Scottish ladies cried out to me 'LIVE DANGEROUSLY, SON! LIVE
DANGEROUSLY'" --kowey
ALL THAT'S NEEDED IS THE DESIRE TO BE HEARD. THE WILL TO LEARN. AND THE
ABILITY TO SEE. --Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
* principles
** we aim to make reliable, maintainable, usable, useful software, sustainably.
** docs before packaging before tests before fixes before refactoring before features
** "bugs" are errors, as in the programmers messed up
** automate
** measure
** test continuously, test everything
** less is more
** code review/pair programming
* todo/backlog
** documentation, marketing
*** developer notes & log
*** intro brainstorming
hledger is a robust command-line accounting tool with a simple plain text data format.
hledger is a reporting tool for accounting transactions stored in a simple human-editable text format.
hledger is a computer program for easily tracking money, time, or other transactions, usually recorded in a general journal file with a simple human-editable markup format.
hledger is primarily a reporting tool, but it can also help you add transactions to the journal, or convert from other data formats.
hledger is a haskell port and friendly fork of John Wiegley's c++ ledger tool.
hledger aims to be a reliable, practical, useful tool for (slightly geeky) users and a reusable library for haskell programmers interested in finance.
hledger is quite simple in essence, aiming to be a reliable low-level parsing-and-reporting tool that doesn't get in your way.
For some, it is a less complex, less expensive, more efficient alternative to Quicken or Quickbooks.
hledger is available for free under the GNU General Public License.
hledger reads plain text files (general journal, timelog, or CSV format) describing transactions (in money, time or other commodities) and prints the chart of accounts, account balances, or transactions you're interested in.
hledger is a free program that helps you understand your finances, making calculations based on data stored a simple text file. If you prefer the command line and a text editor to a big gui application, hledger gives you the power of Quicken and Quickbooks without the complexity.
Your financial data will outlive your financial software, so it should have longevity and accessibility. Its integrity is important to your peace of mind, so changes should be transparent and (if desired) version controlled. It may also be important to allow multiple authors to edit safely. A structured, easy-to-parse, human-friendly plain text format, as in the wiki world, provides a good balance of longevity, reliability, transparency and flexibility.
hledger helps you track and understand your finances, making calculations based on data stored in a simple text file. If you prefer the command line and a text editor to a big gui application, hledger gives you the power of Quicken and Quickbooks without the complexity.
Features: reads transactions in journal, timelog, or CSV format; handles multi-currency/multi-commodity transactions; prints the chart of accounts, account balances, or transactions you're interested in, quickly; scriptable.
*** website
**** add related links:
http://darcsden.com/dbp/housetab-multi
**** add tables of contents
**** integrate binaries, demo, pastebin
*** faq
**** life cycle of top-level accounts
For personal ledgers, when you're born, all accounts are at zero (one hopes) and as you live:
1. Equity accounts accommodate your previous years of not maintaining accounts (fixed, probably negative)
2. Expense accounts become more and more positive (unavoidably)
3. Income accounts become more and more negative (on payday)
4. Assets Accounts become more and more positive (in good times)
5. Liability account become more positive (in good times, when you pay them off) and more negative (when you use them to buy things).
When you die, Equity: and Income: will stand at large negative balances,
Expense: and Assets: will stand at large positive balances and Liabilities
will have to be paid (out of Assets) before your heirs get what's left.
adapted from Ben Alexander, ledger-cli
*** manual
**** make accessible from command line
*** add missing
**** faq
**** examples/how-tos
**** hledger/ledger comparison/feature matrix
**** blog posts
*** reduce
*** aesthetics
**** better screenshots/images
***** use highslide
*** automation
**** keep blurbs in sync
***** README file
***** hledger.hs module description
***** hledger.cabal description field (exclude home page link)
***** home page description (http://joyful.com/Hledger/editform)
***** mail list description (http://groups.google.com/groups/hledger -> edit welcome msg)
***** gmane description
***** darcsweb description
**** keep Options.hs and README option list in sync
**** discovering commands for --help
**** announcements
*** liveness
**** show feeds on site ?
***** commits (darcsweb)
**** weekly repo activity summary on list
**** available feeds
*** screencasts
**** intro
***** intro to hledger
****** place in the world
****** basic installation
****** quick demo
****** where to go from here
***** installing hledger on windows
***** installing hledger on mac
***** installing hledger on unix
***** accessing hledger's support forums
****** website
****** mail list
****** irc channel
***** reporting a hledger bug
**** using
***** income/expense tracking
***** time tracking
***** downloading bank data
***** reconciling with bank statement
***** see time reports by day/week/month/project
***** get accurate numbers for client billing and tax returns
***** find unpaid invoices
**** developing
***** intro to hledger development
***** testing hleder
***** documenting hledger
***** a hledger coding example
***** a tour of hledger's code
**** ledger cooperation
*** developer docs
**** developer notes & log
**** roadmap
***** 1.0
culmination of 0.x releases - stable/usable/documented
followup releases are 1.01, 1.02..
GHC 6.12/HP 2010 primary platform
GHC 6.10/HP 2009 also supported if possible
GHC 6.8 might work for core features, but not officially supported
separate ledger package ? license ?
separate vty, web packages ?
support plugins ?
web: loli+hsp+hack+simpleserver/happstack, or yesod+hstringtemplate+wai+simpleserver/happstack ?
add: completion ?
chart: register charts ?
histogram: cleaned up/removed
complete user manual
binaries for all platforms ?
***** 2.0
development releases are.. 1.60, 1.61.. or 1.98.01, 1.98.02..
separate ledger lib
plugins
Decimal
binaries for all platforms
**** internal api docs
**** external api docs
**** DEVGUIDE
***** How to do anything that needs doing in the hledger project.
****** website & documentation
******* overview of hledger docs
******* how the site is built
******* convenience urls
list.hledger.org - mail list
bugs.hledger.org - issue tracker
bugs.hledger.org/1 - go to specific issue
bugs.hledger.org/new - create a new issue
hledger.org/{list,bugs}/* also works
****** issue tracking
****** testing
****** coding
****** funding process
***** reference
****** unsafe things which may fail at runtime include..
******* incomplete pattern matching
******* error
******* printf
******* read
**** functional programming
hledger is written in the Haskell programming language;
it demonstrates a pure functional implementation of ledger.
*** presenting/live demos
*** develop funding process
**** license change ?
**** donate button, see chimoo guy
**** funding document 2009/01
***** text
=======
funding
=======
vision
======
How to grow the hledger project ?
I'm looking for ways to fund active and sustainable hledger
development by me and others.
A secondary goal is to develop new sustainable models and processes
for funding free software developers and other community projects.
This is sometimes the point in a free sw project's development where
the project leader seemingly loses the plot, alienates contributors
and destroys the community's good-will dynamic. I've seen it many
times, but a few have succeeded and I want to be one of them - so
that I can eat, have a modicum of stability and do my best work in
service to the community. At worst, I'll look bad but the project
will still be out there. At best I'll live more easily and joyfully
while serving the cause of Financial Solvency!
So I'm beginning by posting these notes and inviting your thoughts -
as much or as little as folks want to give. How could we do this
so that all benefit ?
funding models
==============
Brainstorming some possible funding models & processes.
* grants
How to find possible grant sources ?
* con
* getting grant funding is a whole new field to study
* slow and time intensive, I imagine
* donations
Solicit donations.
* pro
* simple
* con
* often difficult
* donators do not feel a direct benefit
* shareware
Release the project under a non-free license, requiring commercial
users to pay the fee on an honour basis (eg).
* pro
* flexible, low administration, encourages trust
* con
* effectively closed-source ? would inhibit collaboration
* benefit is still indirect, only a proportion will pay
* enforcement/guilt may come into play
* limited-time premium branch
The funded version of hledger gets some desirable premium features
before the free version and is closed-source. Funders/customers pay
a fixed price for immediate access to the funded version. Yearly, a
new funded version is released and the old funded version is merged
into the free version. (To gain experience it could be done on a
smaller scale, eg monthly/quarterly.)
* pro
* all features reach community, predictably
* customers are also community funders
* customers receive direct benefit from paying
* con
* free sw developers compete/outshine the premium branch
* bounties
Some (or all) feature, bugfix, project management or other tasks are
published with a bounty attached. When the bounty is paid by one or
more funders, the task is performed and delivered. Or, bounty is paid
on completion of task (honour system).
* pro
* funders receive direct benefit
* bounties using fundable.org (eg)
A more organised form of the above, perhaps facilitating trust,
co-funding and larger bounties.
* pro
* proven process developed by others
* con
* fundable takes a cut
* hosted service
Offer hosted and managed ledgers, perhaps with premium features, for
a monthly fee
* pro
* proven model
* clear benefit to customers, especially non-technies
* con
* success of free/self-installed version competes with hosting service
* some will avoid web-hosting their financial data
* customisation
Offer per-user customisations, possibly to be merged in the trunk,
for a fee
* support
Offer user/developer support for a fee
* training
Offer application and/or financial training for a fee
* profit sharing/tithing
Each period (quarter, half-year, year), donate 10% (eg) to project
contributors and/or supporting projects
* transparent funding
Funding and usage of funds is published on the web as a ledger
* opaque funding
All funding and spending need not be made public
strengths
=========
hledger has some aptitudes in this area:
* hledger deals with money => hledger users will tend to have some money
* hledger's purpose is to increase financial success => users will feel its value to their bottom line
* hledger is a tool that can support project funding, eg by publishing community funding data
weaknesses
==========
* hledger doesn't have a nice ui yet
* hledger has a limited featureset
* hledger requires work, eg data entry and chart of accounts maintenance
* hledger is geeky
* there is competition
* hledger has no compelling market niche (aside from payment-averse free software users)
competitors/fellow niche inhabitants
====================================
* web apps
* netsuite
* sql-ledger, ledgersmb
* wesabe
* ...
* desktop apps
* quickbooks
* quicken
* ms money
* grisbi
* gnucash
* excel
* ledger!
* ...
***** responses
****** albino
have you considered talking to business who hate their financial sw and going from there
****** gwern
most haskellers have never heard of hledger, sounds arrogant or hubristic to talk of charging for it
**** home edition
**** real-time project ledger
** packaging, installability
*** linux
***** debian/ubuntu packaging
*** mac
***** easy installer
***** easy startup
*** windows
***** easy installer
***** easy startup
** testing
*** documentation
**** site up, current ?
**** demo up, current ?
**** haddock building, current ?
**** doctests ?
*** unit
**** hunit
**** quickcheck
**** easier unit test development
*** functional
**** ledger file parsing tests
***** test all ledger file format features
***** clarify hledgerisms in file format - that hledger can read but ledger can't
**** ledger 3 baseline tests
*** performance
**** speed, benchmark tests
**** memory usage
*** build & packaging
**** use -Wall and anything else useful
**** build with multiple ghc versions
**** cabal test
**** hackage upload
**** cabal install with:
***** ghc 6.8
***** ghc 6.10.x
***** windows
***** linux
***** macos
***** no flags
***** happs flag
***** vty flag
*** field
**** talkback, auto bug reports
**** usability
**** download & usage stats
** errors
NOTE: This is the "developers' quick bug list", which predates the
web-based bug tracker and is still used sometimes by hledger developers
comfortable with org-mode.
*** #35 wludwick hledger-web startup issue
*** parsing: recursive file includes cause a hang
echo "!include rec" > rec
hledger -f rec print
*** parsing: only journals (not timelog files) can include, and only another journal
*** parsing: "could not balance" error does not show line number
*** parsing: extra noise with eg bad date parse errors
$ cat t.journal
200/1/99 x
a 1
b
$ ./hledger.hs -f t.journal print
hledger.hs: could not parse journal data in t.journal
"t.journal" (line 1, column 9):
unexpected " " <- undesired
expecting digit <- noise
bad year number: 200
*** parsing: confusing error when journal lacks a final newline
$ cat - >t.j
2010/1/2
a 1
b<ctrl-d>
$ hledger -f t.j bal
hledger: could not parse journal data in t.j
"t.j" (line 3, column 3):
unexpected "b"
expecting comment or new-line
*** parsing: let's enforce positive price amounts for clarity, like ledger
eg 1€ @@ $-2 is not allowed
*** balance: sometimes (i suspect multi-currency is to blame) accounts with zero balances show in "balance" --DA
**** TODO Needs minimal testcase
*** balance: --depth with --flat should show aggregate balances
**** TODO Needs example!
*** register: intervals with unspecified from should start from first txn not first matched txn ?
**** TODO Needs example!
*** web: account patterns on command line are ignored
*** web: doesn't support multiple filter patterns
*** web: post handlers should preserve a and p
*** web: --base-url trailing slash gives redirect loop
hledger-web --port 5001 --base-url http://localhost:5001/ -f ~/personal/household.journal
*** web: assets.bank.checking indentation in demo journal
*** web: loses -B after an edit, and/or a filesystem edit
*** docs: need to be less wall-of-text
*** docs:installing:describe the three install methods in one place
*** #25 can't print non-ascii in windows console
http://code.google.com/p/hledger/issues/detail?id=25
http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2008/12/rxvt-better-console-for-cygwin-unix-on.html
http://www.burningcutlery.com/derek/winsetup/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714415(v=VS.85).aspx
*** auto-creating missing journal files - annoying or helpful ?
** refactoring, cleanup
*** more modularity
**** packages/namespace
***** more package splits ?
****** hledger-web
****** hledger-vty
**** plugin strategy
**** export lists
**** graph and reduce dependencies
*** clarify levels of abstraction
**** web ui balance sheet view - data model, view layout
**** hledger web framework - define routes, handlers/views/actions/controllers/presenters, skins/styles..
**** happstack - ? happstack api..
**** hledger app platform - hledger.hs, Options, Utils, withLedgerDo..
**** hledger lib - Ledger, TimeLog, Account, Transaction, Commodity..
**** hledger dev platform - make build, ci, test, bench, prof, check, release..
**** general libs - directory, parsec, regex-*, HUnit, time..
**** cabal - hledger.cabal, hackage..
**** ghc - ghc 6.8, 6.10..
**** haskell 98
**** unix/windows/mac platform
*** inspiration
http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/downloads/paper-hoogle_overview-19_nov_2008.pdf -> Design Guidelines
** features
*** parsing: support --options (?)
*** parsing: canonicalise account names to be case-insensitive ?
*** parsing: period expressions should allow interval at the end
eg support -p 'from 1/1 to 2/1 weekly'
*** --empty-parents
$260.00 expenses
$260.00 rent
*** --empty -> --show-zero-accounts, --show-empty-parents
*** --output-layout=ledger|traditional
*** --output-format=text|html|pdf
*** try indenting amounts
$260.00 expenses
$260.00 rent
*** chart of accounts specification
; chart of accounts
; defines allowed account names, hierarchy, default sort order,
; and some metadata (account numbers, cf http://www.netmba.com/accounting/fin/accounts/chart/)
ACCOUNTS
assets ; :number: 1000
cash ; :number: 1010
HT7 ; :number: 1011
jan ; :number: 1011.01
feb ; :number: 1011.02
mar ; :number: 1011.03
RSG ; :number: 1012
jan ; :number: 1012.01
feb ; :number: 1012.02
mar ; :number: 1012.03
bank ; :number: 1020
HT7 ; :number: 1021
RSG ; :number: 1022
reserve ; :number: 1023
liabilities ; :number: 2000
accounts payable ; :number: 2010
BSG/GI/RSG ; :number: 2011
equity ; :number: 3000
opening balances ; :number: 3010
income ; :number: 4000
HT7 ; :number: 4010
RSG ; :number: 4020
expenses ; :number: 6000
rent ; :number: 6010
*** ignore/support ledger assert statements
; Assertion directives Options
; These can occur in many places:
; ; Within an automated transaction, the assert is evaluated every time
; ; a posting is matched, with the expression context set to the
; ; matched posting.
; = /Food/
; assert account("Expenses:Food").total >= $100
; 2010-06-12 Sample
; Expenses:Food $100
; Assets:Checking
; ; At file scope, the expression is evaluated within "global" scope.
; assert account("Expenses:Food").total == $100
; ; At the top of a transction, the assertion's scope is the
; ; transaction. After a posting, the scope is that posting. Note
; ; however that account totals are only adjusted after successful
; ; parsing of a transaction, which means that all the assertions below
; ; are true, even though it appears as though the first posting should
; ; affect the total immediately, which is not the case.
; 2010-06-12 Sample 2
; assert account("Expenses:Food").total == $100
; Expenses:Food $50
; assert account("Expenses:Food").total == $100
; Assets:Checking
; assert account("Expenses:Food").total == $100
*** better international number format support (#32)
*** show add form after adding
*** : completes one account name component
*** auto-complete from substrings, not just prefixes
*** auto-complete accounts & amount as well as description
*** use current year as default when no year specified
*** use journal from stdin when provided ?
*** allow price record for null commodity, eg with quotes
P 2009/1/1 "" 0.5h
and why doesn't this work ? time.journal:
P 2010/9/27 h 1
$ hledger -f time.journal bal -p aug -B
1
17.75h work:jobs
1
17.50h clearview
1 60 clear glass thermal data
0.25h admin:cheque issue
12.75h backups/hosting
2.00h cleanup
1.00h move plan
2.25h move prep
4.00h testing
3.50h speed
1.50h barbara spellcheck issue
0.50h installation report dates
0.25h plan change issue
1.00h planning/discussion
0.50h speed issue
0.25h tina quote low-e layout
0.50h tina title 24 issue
0.25h kcrw:admin:contract update:unbilled
--------------------
1
17.75h
*** register --wide and/or --format ...
*** --related
*** Double -> Decimal
*** parsing: safety check that effective date > actual (to catch eg 2009/12/30=1/4)
*** parsing: support @@
*** parsing: support D
*** parsing: accept all real-world ledger files
As far as I know it currently accepts all ledger 2.6-era files.
Add support for ledger 3 file format as/when that stabilises.
It would be nice to optionally report/upload parse errors when they happen.
*** talkback feature
gather data on real-world installation & usage issues
simplify bug reporting/handling
improve reliability
*** upload feature
*** payee & account anonymisation
*** easier timelog formats
*** add: completion etc.
*** convert: handle separate debit/credit columns
*** convert: generalise/reuse add's history awareness
*** web: charts (Chart or google)
*** wide/customisable/consistent layout
*** effective/actual dates for postings
*** better web ui/gui
*** nice reports with charts
*** more automated bank data conversion
*** parse more file formats - gnucash, qif, ofx, csv..
*** download via ofx protocol
*** watching a changing ledger
*** more date syntax ? last nov, next friday, optional this, week of
*** more period syntax ? every N days, biweekly
*** accept multiple -f files
*** more reliable tidy layout from print
*** i18n
*** speed, memory usage
*** clear, documented interfaces/surfaces
*** plugin architecture/modular packaging
**** goals
***** allow separately-packaged functionality to be discovered at run-time and integrated within the hledger ui.
Example: user installs hledger-ofx package from hackage, or adds Ofx.hs to their ~/.hledger/plugins/;
then "ofx" is among the commands listed by hledger --help, and/or is a new command available in
the web and vty interfaces, and/or is a new file format understood by the convert command.
**** issues to consider
***** what is the api for plugins ?
they'll want to import Ledger lib, to work with ledger data structures
***** there are different kinds of "plugin". What could plugins provide ?
****** commands - for all uis, or for one or more of them (cli, web, vty..). A command may itself be a new ui.
****** import/export formats
****** skins/styles/templates for uis, eg the web ui ?
**** techniques to consider
***** running executables provided by plugins
a cli command plugin: cli execs the executable with same arguments
a web command plugin: web ui runs the executable as a subprocess and captures the output
***** linking plugins into main app with direct-plugins
simplification of plugins lib
main app needs to know the types used in plugin's interface
weakens type safety, avoiding runtime errors requires extra care
requires whole-program linking at plugin load time
plugins can be discovered by querying ghc for installed packages or modules in a known part of the hierarchy
maintained and keen to help
***** linking plugins into main app with plugins (original)
more complex than above
more type-safe/featureful ?
***** doing whatever xmonad does with dyre
***** interpreting plugins under control of main app with hint
ghci in an IO-like monad
types need converting, etc.
plugins may run more slowly
plugins can be discovered/loaded by module path or by loading files directly
* misc
** things I want to know
*** time
where have I been spending my time in recent weeks ?
where have I spent my time today ?
what is my status wrt spending plan for this week/month/year ?
what is my current status wrt time spending goals ?
*** money
where have I been spending my money ?
what is my status wrt spending plan for this week/month/year ?
what is my current status wrt spending/savings goals ?
what are all my current balances ?
what does my balance history look like ?
what does my balance future look like ?
are there any cashflow, tax, budgetary problems looming ?
*** charts
[1:27pm] <sm> I have decided I am not getting enough visible day-to-day value out of my ledger, I need more of that to stay motivated
[1:27pm] <Nafai> What do you think will help in that?
[1:27pm] <sm> I think some simple self-updating charts, or even good reports in a visible place
[1:28pm] <sm> something I don't have to spend an hour fiddling with to get answers
[1:38pm] <sm> Nafai: identifying/designing some useful reports/charts seems to be blocking me
[1:39pm] <sm> there are probably some standard ones I should use
[1:40pm] <sm> a graph of daily net worth is probably one of the simplest
[1:58pm] <sm> what else.. a chart of weekly expenses in key categories
[1:58pm] <sm> ditto, monthly
[1:58pm] <sm> a chart of monthly income
[1:59pm] <sm> those three should help me be more clear about cashflow status
[2:00pm] <sm> also I'd like something that shows me how much I am on top of financial tracking - how current my numbers are, when last reconciled etc - at a glance
[2:01pm] <sm> another simple one: current balances in all accounts
[2:01pm] <sm> those would be a great start
[2:04pm] <sm> daily net worth, weekly expense, monthly expense, monthly income, confidence/currentness report, and balance report
[2:05pm] <sm> let's see, which of those 6 would give most payoff right now
[2:05pm] <sm> probably 5
[2:06pm] <sm> how could I measure that ?
[2:06pm] <sm> number of days since last ledger entry..
[2:06pm] <sm> number of ledger entries in last 30 days (compared to average)
[2:07pm] <sm> number of days since last cleared checking entry (indicating an online reconcile)
[2:08pm] <sm> those would be a good start. How do I make those visual
[2:09pm] <sm> well I guess the first step is a script to print them
** data representation
*** http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0327/
*** http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/Decimal/
*** http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/Decimal/Money.hs
*** http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
** docs
*** http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Accounting
*** http://books.google.com/books?id=4V8pZmpwmBYC&lpg=PP1&dq=analysis%20patterns&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false
*** lwn grumpy editor articles
**** http://lwn.net/Articles/149383/
**** http://lwn.net/Articles/153043/
**** http://lwn.net/Articles/233627/
**** http://lwn.net/Articles/314577/
**** http://lwn.net/Articles/387967/ (free after 5/27)
*** hledger ghci examples
This is the main object you'll deal with as a user of the Ledger
library.
The most useful functions also have shorter, lower-case aliases for easier
interaction. Here's an example:
> > import Hledger.Data
> > j <- readJournal "sample.ledger"
> > let l = journalToLedger nullfilterspec j
> > accountnames l
> ["assets","assets:bank","assets:bank:checking","assets:bank:saving",...
> > accounts l
> [Account assets with 0 txns and $-1 balance,Account assets:bank with...
> > topaccounts l
> [Account assets with 0 txns and $-1 balance,Account expenses with...
> > account l "assets"
> Account assets with 0 txns and $-1 balance
> > accountsmatching ["ch"] l
> accountsmatching ["ch"] l
> [Account assets:bank:checking with 4 txns and $0 balance]
> > subaccounts l (account l "assets")
> subaccounts l (account l "assets")
> [Account assets:bank with 0 txns and $1 balance,Account assets:cash...
> > head $ transactions l
> 2008/01/01 income assets:bank:checking $1 RegularPosting
> > accounttree 2 l
> Node {rootLabel = Account top with 0 txns and 0 balance, subForest = [...
> > accounttreeat l (account l "assets")
> Just (Node {rootLabel = Account assets with 0 txns and $-1 balance, ...
> > datespan l -- disabled
> DateSpan (Just 2008-01-01) (Just 2009-01-01)
> > rawdatespan l
> DateSpan (Just 2008-01-01) (Just 2009-01-01)
> > ledgeramounts l
> [$1,$-1,$1,$-1,$1,$-1,$1,$1,$-2,$1,$-1]
> > commodities l
> [Commodity {symbol = "$", side = L, spaced = False, comma = False, ...
*** ledger budgeting/forecasting
seanh:
With `--budget` you can compare your budgeted transactions to your
actual transactions and see whether you are under or over your budget.
The way it works is this: say you have a budget entry that moves £50
from Assets into Expenses:Cash every week:
~ Weekly
Expenses:Cash £50
Assets
When you run register or balance with `--budget` ledger will insert
reverse transactions that move £50 _from_ Expenses:Cash _into_ Assets
every week. These are called budget entries. The idea is that your real
transactions that move money from Assets into Expenses will offset the
inserted budget entries that move money the other way. The budget
entries and the real transactions should sum to zero, if they don't then
it shows how much you have overspent or underspent.
For example:
ledger --budget balance '^expenses'
balances your budgeted expenses against your actual expenses on those
budgeted accounts (sub-accounts of expenses that do not appear in the
budget are ignored in this calculation). The sum of the budget entries
(which move money out of expenses accounts) and your real transactions
(which move money into expenses accounts) should be 0. If the sum is
positive then it shows how much you've overspent, if it's negative then
it shows how much you've underspent.
You can do the same with register and get a print out of each
transaction (budget entries and real transactions) with a running total:
ledger --budget register '^expenses'
And you can produce weekly, monthly or yearly budget reports:
ledger --budget --weekly register '^expenses'
ledger --budget --monthly register '^expenses'
ledger --budget --yearly register '^expenses'
These will only output reports for each week, month or year that has
passed (your ledger file contains transactions dated later than that
week, month, or year). You can see how well you did last week (or month,
or year) but you can't see how well you're doing so far this week
(month, year).
The `--unbudgeted` argument will show (and sum) all your expenses for
accounts that are _not_ budgeted, and the `--add-budget` argument will
consider all your expenses budgeted or not with the budget entries
added in.
With `--forecast` you can project your budget into the future to see,
for example, when some account will reach 0. For example, to predict
your net worth:
ledger --forecast 'd<[2012]' register '^assets' '^liabilities'
Or to see how your expenses will add up:
ledger --forecast 'd<[2012]' register '^expenses'
*** essential/getting started info
I've never used financial management software before, I'm just confused at what I'm doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system
money isn't created or destroyed, it moves between accounts
all possible accounts are organised under five categories: assets, liabilities, equity, income, expenses
the gist of it for *ledger users is that each transaction in your journal (file) is balanced, ie its postings add up to zero
typically you have a posting to some account (expenses:food $10) and an equal posting from another (assets:cash $-10)
so should things like income be a forever-decreasing value?
yes
I think traditional bookkeeping uses "debit" and "credit" for (among other things) hiding the negative sign
I wonder, if folks had been comfortable with negative numbers in the middle ages, if debit/credit would have been invented
so, when I start a ledger file and I start my initial account balances for, say, checking, I withdraw them from equity or income? Or does it matter in this case?
traditionally, you transfer opening balances from equity
and this is just a convention, or is there some better reason behind it?
I believe it's actually based on the real-world meaning, and makes sense if you study enough bookkeeping
I thought equity was more a share of something owned.
that's right, and if you squint enough the two uses are equivalent
So I'd do something like "assets:checking $foo \ assets:savings $bar \ liabilities:creditcard $-baz \ equity:opening balance"?
yes
what about loans? Those are liabilities, right?
yes
okay. So after I set up my initial account balances, it's just a matter of keeping track how and what I spend.
yup, tracking your checking account's or your wallet's inflows and outflows is a good way to start
Gradually you'll add more tricky things like invoices and short-term loans (accounts receivable/payable)
I also read in the manual that you can set up routine actions, like debiting from one account and crediting to another on a monthly basis.
this can help me set up budgets, right?
yes, ledger lets you specify those with special modifier/periodic transactions. They appear in reports but not in your journal file. Or you can use cron or something to actually add them to the journal
and there's also a budget report feature
a catalog of standard bookkeeping entries for typical real-world transactions is really helpful and worth searching for
** software
*** http://gnucash.org
*** http://www.xtuple.com/postbooks
*** http://weberp.org
**** http://www.weberp.org/weberp/doc/Manual/ManualContents.php
** selinger article on currency & capital gains accounting
http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html#1.2
** hledger feedback
*** fabrice niessen
+For me, what would be very useful for a 1.0 version would be:
+
+- @check directive (see beancount), but implemented as a comment for ledger,
+ so that ledger does not get confused by this, and that you can implement
+ more features without breaking backward compatibility;
+
+- account declaration (see beancount), in ledger comments. Giving an account
+ number would (or could) help for the reporting stuff, for knowing which
+ value to get to read, for inserting in a given report;
+
+- some built-in ratios for being able to see the health of the finances (see
+ my Excel file, if you're interested);
+
+- easier standard outputs, such as the one above (with expenses and income in
+ 2 columns).
+
+- real report generation (I thought at LaTeX as in SQL Ledger, but I am now
+ heading and producing reports through Org, which is 1000x better). Results
+ soon.
+
** hamlet feedback
*** thread data through nested templates with Reader monad
*** HDString constructor for HamletData ?
*** data type for non-RT Hamlet as well, or better, the same type for both
*** allow (RT or non-RT) templates in $ $ as well, drop ^ ^
*** allow literal arguments in references
*** easier verbatim content quoting, eg lines starting with \\. Having to escape $$ is not so convenient for jquery
*** docs and compiler errors should say something clearer than "Hamlet url" (Hamlet routetype, urltype, routet, urlt ?)
*** 2010/8
**** $ $ could handle templates as well; drop ^ ^
**** @ @ could recognise tuples automatically; drop ?
**** why !: : for conditional attributes ? How about !? ?
** code snippets
fromOfxTransaction :: StatementTransaction -> LedgerTransaction
fromOfxTransaction StatementTransaction {
stType = _ --sttype -- :: TransactionType
,stDatePosted = stdateposted -- :: Maybe UTCTime
,stAmount = stamount -- :: Decimal
,stCheckNumber = stchecknumber -- :: Maybe Int
,stFITID = _ --stfitid -- :: String
,stSIC = _ --stsic -- :: Maybe String
,stName = stname -- :: String
} =
LedgerTransaction {
ltdate = date -- :: Day,
,ltstatus = stat -- :: Bool,
,ltcode = code -- :: String,
,ltdescription = desc -- :: String,
,ltcomment = com -- :: String,
,ltpostings = ps -- :: [Posting],
,ltpreceding_comment_lines = prec -- :: String
}
where
date = maybe (error "found an undated bank transaction, giving up") utctDay stdateposted
stat = False
code = maybe "" show stchecknumber
desc = stname
com = ""
ps = [
Posting False "UNKNOWN" a "" RegularPosting,
Posting False "CHECKING" (-a) "" RegularPosting
]
prec = ""
a = Mixed [dollars $ fromDecimal stamount]
fromDecimal d = fromIntegral (decimalMantissa d) / (10 ^ decimalPlaces d)
Name: test
Version: 0.1
Synopsis: test package for linking against internal libraries
Author: Stefan Wehr
Build-type: Simple
Cabal-version: >=1.8 -- IMPORTANT
Library
Hs-source-dirs: lib -- IMPORTANT
Exposed-modules: A
Build-Depends: base >= 4
Executable test-exe
Build-depends: base >= 4, test, -- link against the internal library
Main-is: Main.hs -- imports A
Hs-source-dirs: prog -- IMPORTANT
-- trace a MixedAmount
matrace :: MixedAmount -> MixedAmount
matrace a@(Mixed as) = trace (show as) a
-- normalise and trace a MixedAmount
nmatrace :: MixedAmount -> MixedAmount
nmatrace a = trace (show as) a where (Mixed as) = normaliseMixedAmount a
-- cabal test
import System.FilePath
main = defaultMainWithHooks $ simpleUserHooks { runTests = runTests' }
runTests' :: Args -> Bool -> PackageDescription -> LocalBuildInfo -> IO ()
runTests' _ _ _ lbi = system testprog >> return ()
where testprog = (buildDir lbi) </> "hledger" </> "hledger test"
-- queryStringFromAP a p = if null ap then "" else "?" ++ ap
-- where
-- ap = intercalate "&" [a',p']
-- a' = if null a then "" else printf "&a=%s" a
-- p' = if null p then "" else printf "&p=%s" p
-- toggleScriptFor name = [$hamlet|
-- <script type="text/javascript">
-- function $name$Toggle() {
-- e = document.getElementById('$name$');
-- link = document.getElementById('$name$link');
-- if (e.style.display == 'none') {
-- link.style['font-weight'] = 'bold';
-- e.style.display = 'block';
-- } else {
-- link.style['font-weight'] = 'normal';
-- e.style.display = 'none';
-- }
-- return false;
-- }
-- </script>
-- |]
-- group register report items by transaction
groupeditems [] = []
groupeditems items = is:(groupeditems js)
where (is,js) = span (\(ds,_,_) -> isNothing ds) items
/* html, body {height: 100%} */
/* #content {min-height: 100%} */
/* #editform textarea { height:100%; } */
/* input:focus { background-color: #efe; } */
/* a.tooltip {position: relative} */
/* a.tooltip span {display:none; padding:5px; width:200px;} */
/* a:hover {background:#fff;} /\*background-color is a must for IE6*\/ */
/* a.tooltip:hover span{display:inline; position:absolute;} */
/* div#page {width: 960px; margin: 0 auto} */
/* div#container {height: 35px; line-height: 35px} */
/* div#content {position: absolute; top: 50%; height: 500px; margin-top: -250px} */
/* div#content {position: absolute; top: 50%; left:50%; width:800px; height: 500px; margin-left: -400px; margin-top: -250px} */
/* div#button {background: #888; border: 1px solid; border-color: #999 #777 #777 #999 } */
/* .element {border-radius: 5px} */
; prototype "equalising" transactions
;
; generate a transfer between alice & bob equalising their contribution to rent's 5/1 balance
; A 2010/5/1 expenses:rent
; alice 50%
; bob 50%
; generate a transfer between alice & bob such that alice's contribution to car payment's 5/1 balance is $100
; A 2010/5/1 expenses:car:payment
; alice $100
; bob
; A 2010/5/1 expenses:car not:expenses:car:payment
; alice 50%
; bob
; A 2010/5/1 expenses:food
; alice
; bob
; A 2010/5/1 expenses:home
; alice
; bob
; A 2010/5/1 expenses:utilities
; alice
; bob
maybeFileInput :: String -> FormInput sub master (Maybe FileInfo)
maybeFileInput name = GForm $ \_ env -> do
let res = FormSuccess $ lookup name env
return (res, [addBody [$hamlet|
%input!type=file!name=$name$
|]], Multipart)
-- handler for add form auto-complete requests
-- <?php
-- header("Content-type:text/xml");
-- ini_set('max_execution_time', 600);
-- require_once('../../common/config.php');
-- print("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>");
-- $link = mysql_pconnect($mysql_host, $mysql_user, $mysql_pasw);
-- $db = mysql_select_db ($mysql_db);
-- if (!isset($_GET["pos"])) $_GET["pos"]=0;
-- //Create database and table if doesn't exists
-- //mysql_create_db($mysql_db,$link);
-- $sql = "Select * from Countries";
-- $res = mysql_query ($sql);
-- if(!$res){
-- $sql = "CREATE TABLE Countries (item_id INT UNSIGNED not null AUTO_INCREMENT,item_nm VARCHAR (200),item_cd VARCHAR (15),PRIMARY KEY ( item_id ))";
-- $res = mysql_query ($sql);
-- populateDBRendom();
-- }else{
--
-- }
-- //populate db with 10000 records
-- function populateDBRendom(){
-- $filename = getcwd()."../../common/countries.txt";
-- $handle = fopen ($filename, "r");
-- $contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename));
-- $arWords = split("\r\n",$contents);
-- //print(count($arWords));
-- for($i=0;$i<count($arWords);$i++){
-- $nm = $arWords[$i];
-- $cd = rand(123456,987654);
-- $sql = "INsert into Countries(item_nm,item_cd) Values('".$nm."','".$cd."')";
-- mysql_query ($sql);
-- if($i==9999)
-- break;
-- }
-- fclose ($handle);
-- }
-- getDataFromDB($_GET["mask"]);
-- mysql_close($link);
-- //print one level of the tree, based on parent_id
-- function getDataFromDB($mask){
-- $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT item_nm FROM Countries Where item_nm like '".mysql_real_escape_string($mask)."%'";
-- $sql.= " Order By item_nm LIMIT ". $_GET["pos"].",20";
-- if ( $_GET["pos"]==0)
-- print("<complete>");
-- else
-- print("<complete add='true'>");
-- $res = mysql_query ($sql);
-- if($res){
-- while($row=mysql_fetch_array($res)){
-- print("<option value=\"".$row["item_nm"]."\">");
-- print($row["item_nm"]);
-- print("</option>");
-- }
-- }else{
-- echo mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()." at ".__LINE__." line in ".__FILE__." file<br>";
-- }
-- print("</complete>");
-- }
-- ?>
** linux binary linking issue
Linking bin/hledger-0.13-linux-x86_64 ...
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/unix-2.4.0.2/libHSunix-2.4.0.2.a(HsUnix.o): In function `__hsunix_getpwent':
HsUnix.c:(.text+0x171): warning: Using 'getpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/unix-2.4.0.2/libHSunix-2.4.0.2.a(HsUnix.o): In function `__hsunix_getpwnam_r':
HsUnix.c:(.text+0x161): warning: Using 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/unix-2.4.0.2/libHSunix-2.4.0.2.a(HsUnix.o): In function `__hsunix_getpwuid_r':
HsUnix.c:(.text+0x151): warning: Using 'getpwuid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
** windows build issues
with cygwin 1.7.7, windows xp
*** process
$ (date && ghc --version && cabal update && cabal configure && cabal build) >log 2>&1
Mon Dec 6 14:23:11 PST 2010
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring process-1.0.1.4...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for pid_t... yes
checking vfork.h usability... no
checking vfork.h presence... no
checking for vfork.h... no
checking for fork... yes
checking for vfork... yes
checking for working fork... yes
checking for working vfork... (cached) yes
checking signal.h usability... yes
checking signal.h presence... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
checking sys/wait.h usability... yes
checking sys/wait.h presence... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for setitimer,... no
checking for sysconf... yes
checking value of SIG_DFL... 0
checking value of SIG_IGN... 1
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating include/HsProcessConfig.h
config.status: include/HsProcessConfig.h is unchanged
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler
Preprocessing library process-1.0.1.4...
Building process-1.0.1.4...
In file included from C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:33,
from cbits\runProcess.c:12:0:
C:/cygwin/usr/include/stdlib.h:110: warning: `__warning__' attribute directive ignored
C:/cygwin/usr/include/stdlib.h:117: warning: `__warning__' attribute directive ignored
In file included from C:/HP/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/windows.h:98,
from C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:88,
from cbits\runProcess.c:12:0:
C:/HP/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/winsock2.h:103:2: warning: #warning "fd_set and associated macros have been defined in sys/types. This may cause runtime problems with W32 sockets"
In file included from cbits\runProcess.c:12:0:
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_ftruncate':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:347: warning: implicit declaration of function `ftruncate'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: At top level:
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:378: error: syntax error before "stsize_t"
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:378: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `stsize_t'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:378: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_sizeof_stat':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:387: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to incomplete type `C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_st_mtime':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:390: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: At top level:
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:391: error: syntax error before "__hscore_st_size"
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:391: warning: return type defaults to `int'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_st_size':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:391: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_st_mode':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:393: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_st_dev':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:394: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_st_ino':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:395: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_stat':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:400: warning: implicit declaration of function `_wstati64'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_fstat':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:404: warning: implicit declaration of function `_fstati64'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_open':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:591: warning: implicit declaration of function `_wsopen'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: At top level:
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:608: error: syntax error before "__hscore_lseek"
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:608: error: syntax error before "off64_t"
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:608: warning: return type defaults to `int'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h: In function `__hscore_lseek':
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:609: warning: implicit declaration of function `_lseeki64'
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:609: error: `fd' undeclared (first use in this function)
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:609: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:609: error: for each function it appears in.)
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:609: error: `off' undeclared (first use in this function)
C:/HP/lib/base-4.2.0.2/include/HsBase.h:609: error: `whence' undeclared (first use in this function)
cbits\runProcess.c: In function `runInteractiveProcess':
cbits\runProcess.c:387:0:
warning: implicit declaration of function `_get_osfhandle'
cbits\runProcess.c:463:0:
warning: implicit declaration of function `_open_osfhandle'
*** haskeline
$ (date && ghc --version && cabal update && cabal install haskeline) >log 2>&1
Mon Dec 6 14:39:54 PST 2010
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.12.3
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( C:\DOCUME~1\SIMON\LOCALS~1\Temp\haskeline-0.6.3.24132\haskeline-0.6.3.2\Setup.hs, C:\DOCUME~1\SIMON\LOCALS~1\Temp\haskeline-0.6.3.24132\haskeline-0.6.3.2\dist\setup\Main.o )
Linking C:\DOCUME~1\SIMON\LOCALS~1\Temp\haskeline-0.6.3.24132\haskeline-0.6.3.2\dist\setup\setup.exe ...
Configuring haskeline-0.6.3.2...
Preprocessing library haskeline-0.6.3.2...
In file included from C:/HP/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/windows.h:98,
from includes/win_console.h:3,
from System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32.hsc:27:
C:/HP/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/winsock2.h:103:2: warning: #warning "fd_set and associated macros have been defined in sys/types. This may cause runtime problems with W32 sockets"
dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o:Win32_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x47): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o:Win32_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x7b): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o:Win32_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x93): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o:Win32_hsc_make.c:(.text+0xc7): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o:Win32_hsc_make.c:(.text+0xf3): undefined reference to `_impure_ptr'
dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o:Win32_hsc_make.c:(.text+0x127): more undefined references to `_impure_ptr' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
linking dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o failed
command was: C:\HP\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -LC:\cygwin\lib -LC:\Documents and Settings\Simon\Application Data\cabal\utf8-string-0.3.6\ghc-6.12.3 -LC:\cygwin\lib -LC:\HP\lib\extralibs\mtl-1.1.0.2\ghc-6.12.3 -LC:\HP\lib\extensible-exceptions-0.1.1.1 -LC:\HP\lib\directory-1.0.1.1 -LC:\HP\lib\old-time-1.0.0.5 -LC:\HP\lib\old-locale-1.0.0.2 -LC:\HP\lib\filepath-1.1.0.4 -LC:\HP\lib\containers-0.3.0.0 -LC:\HP\lib\base-3.0.3.2 -LC:\HP\lib\syb-0.1.0.2 -LC:\HP\lib\array-0.3.0.1 -LC:\HP\lib\Win32-2.2.0.2 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lshfolder -LC:\HP\lib\bytestring-0.9.1.7 -LC:\HP\lib\base-4.2.0.2 -lwsock32 -luser32 -lshell32 -LC:\HP\lib\integer-gmp-0.2.0.1 -LC:\HP\lib\ghc-prim-0.2.0.0 -LC:\HP\lib -LC:\HP\lib/gcc-lib -lm -lwsock32 -LC:\HP\lib dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.o -o dist\build\System\Console\Haskeline\Backend\Win32_hsc_make.exe
cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
haskeline-0.6.3.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
*** gtk2hs
Eduard_Munteanu> sm: gtk2hs-0.10.1 (binary), HP 2009.2.0.1 (binary too) -- if you ever need it.
* journal
** 2010
*** 5/4
**** balance sheet pomodoro 1
started balance sheet script
began refactoring for importable Hledger.Cli.*
set up missing tools on netbook: haskell-mode
adapt to distro & ghc 6.12 upgrade
install missing cabal packages
tighten dependency to avoid testpack 2.0 api change
ghc-pkg dump error
**** balance sheet pomodoro 2
set up work log
adapt to distro & ghc 6.12 upgrade: ghc-pkg dump error (cabal clean)
tools setup: hasktags
move Options to Hledger.Cli
got trivial balancesheet script working
deal with darcs mv screwup
*** 5/6
**** review/cleanup pomodoro
review/record pending changes
develop work log/backlog
website hakyll conversion
*** 5/19
researched current web libs
finished move to Hledger module space
cleaned up notes
*** 5/20
converted manual to markdown
more detailed installation docs
*** 5/21
upgraded hakyll
fixed hakyll/pandoc quotes issue
*** 5/22
refactored journal/ledger construction
updated benchmarks
resolved register memory leak
*** 5/23
clarified Journal & Ledger roles
various 6.12, utf8 and other fixes
released 0.10
*** 5/24
implemented --flat, --drop
*** 5/25
support, investigated rounding issue
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