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title: hledger development
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# hledger development

**Support** for users and developers:

- chat Simon (sm) on the
  [\#ledger](irc://irc.freenode.net/#ledger) irc channel which we
  share, or [email me](mailto:simon@joyful.com?subject=hledger:)
- [report](http://code.google.com/p/hledger/issues/entry)
  problems at [bugs.hledger.org](http://bugs.hledger.org)
  ([view all](http://bugs.hledger.org/grid))
- share and test journal snippets at paste . hledger.org
- <form action="http://groups.google.com/group/hledger/boxsubscribe" >
  join the hledger mail list at <a href="http://list.hledger.org">list.hledger.org</a>. Your email:
  <input type=text name=email><input type=submit name="sub" value="Subscribe">
  </form>

**Goals:** the hledger project aims to produce

-   a practical, accessible, dependable tool for end users
-   a useful library and toolbox for finance-minded haskell programmers
-   a successful, time-and-money-solvent project within a thriving ecosystem of financial software projects.

**Code:**

>     darcs get --lazy http://joyful.com/repos/hledger
>     cd hledger
>     make or make install
> 
> [Release notes](NEWS.html),
> [browse the repo](http://joyful.com/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=hledger),
> [hackage page](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hledger),
> [combined api docs](http://hledger.org/api-doc/),
> [benchmark](http://hledger.org/profs/latest.bench)/[profile](http://hledger.org/profs/latest.prof)/[heap](http://hledger.org/profs/latest.ps)/[coverage reports](http://hledger.org/profs/coverage/hpc_index_fun.html),
> [developer notes](http://joyful.com/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=hledger;a=plainblob;f=/NOTES)

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**Related projects**

-   John Wiegley's [ledger](http://wiki.github.com/jwiegley/ledger) inspired hledger.
-   h/ledger inspired Uwe Hollerbach's [umm](http://www.korgwal.com/umm/).
-   Tim Docker's [ledger-reports](http://dockerz.net/repos/ledger-reports) builds on hledger to generate
    [html reports](http://dockerz.net/software/hledger_report_sample/report.html).
-   I have a few older bits and pieces [here](http://joyful.com/Ledger).