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title: The hledger project
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author: Simon Michael
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date: November 2016
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status: stable, actively developed
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hledger is a set of cross-platform tools (and Haskell libraries) for
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tracking money, time, or any other commodity using double-entry
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accounting and a simple plain text file format.
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hledger aims to be reliable and practical for daily use, and provides
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command-line, curses-style and web interfaces. It is a largely
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compatible Haskell reimplementation of John Wiegley's Ledger program.
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hledger is released under GNU GPLv3+.
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In November 2015, the immediate plans were to
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improve docs and help,
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improve parser speed and memory efficiency,
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integrate a separate parser for Ledger files built by John Wiegley,
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hledger-ui improvements,
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and work towards the 1.0 release.
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All but one of these goals have been achieved:
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- docs have been reorganized, with more focussed manuals available in
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multiple versions, formats and as built-in help
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- hledger has migrated from parsec to megaparsec and from String to Text,
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parsers have been simplified, memory usage is ~30% less on large files,
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speed is slightly improved all around
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- the ledger4 parser is not yet integrated
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- hledger-ui has acquired many new features making it more useful
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(file editing, filtering, historical/period modes, quick period browsing..)
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- 1.0 has been released!
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Also,
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- hledger-web is more robust and more mobile-friendly
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- hledger-api, a simple web API server, has been added
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- a new "timedot" file format allows retroactive/approximate time logging
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- we now support GHC 8 and GHC 7.10, dropping GHC 7.8 and 7.6 support.
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(GHC 7.8 support requires a maintainer).
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- hpack is now used for maintaining cabal files
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- our benchmarking tool has been spun off as the quickbench package
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- the hledger.org website is simpler, clearer, and more mobile-friendly
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- a call for help was sent out last month, and contributor activity
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has increased.
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Future plans include:
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- support the 1.0 release
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- improve the website and docs
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- grow the user & developer community
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- clean up, automate, improve and scale our processes
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- improve quality, reduce waste
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- add the ledger4 parser
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- add budget/goal-tracking features
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- improve hledger-ui usability and features; live reloading
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hledger is available from the hledger.org website, from Github,
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Hackage, and Stackage, and is packaged for a number of systems
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including Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora, and NixOS.
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For more, see <http://hledger.org>.
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