Gentoo already has app-office/ledger, but this project is dead and didn't update for years. There are two most active forks, and hledger (written in Haskell) is the most popular one. http://hledger.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/
haskell overlay has it packaged for a while as https://github.com/gentoo-haskell/gentoo-haskell/tree/master/dev-haskell/hledger If it works for you we can bring it in main gentoo tree as well.
*** Bug 669158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I want hledger and hledger-ui. You should move hledger and its associated programs from haskell overlay to gentoo overlay. I don't use haskell overlay because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/555266 and https://bugs.gentoo.org/449094
(In reply to crocket from comment #3) > I don't use haskell overlay because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/555266 and > https://bugs.gentoo.org/449094 These problems are not specific to ::haskell overlay.
You're right that https://bugs.gentoo.org/449094 affects every overlay. You can work around https://bugs.gentoo.org/555266 with stabilization process. But, haskell overlay doesn't stick to this process.
(In reply to crocket from comment #5) > You're right that https://bugs.gentoo.org/449094 affects every overlay. ::gentoo tree is not exempted from it either. > You can work around https://bugs.gentoo.org/555266 with stabilization > process. But, haskell overlay doesn't stick to this process. stabilization in gentoo does not prevent that from happening. Recent example: bug #633312
(In reply to Sergei Trofimovich from comment #6) > > You can work around https://bugs.gentoo.org/555266 with stabilization > > process. But, haskell overlay doesn't stick to this process. > > stabilization in gentoo does not prevent that from happening. Recent > example: bug #633312 That bug doesn't seem to be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/555266
Anyway, it would be good to see hledger and its associated programs on gentoo overlay.
I thought about how to use haskell overlay without hassles. I ran "emerge -p hledger hledger-ui" and added packages to be installed to /etc/portage/packages.accept_keywords/haskell_overlay Since specific versions of haskell overlay packages are unmasked, a gentoo upgrade will not automatically upgrade haskell overlay packages. It is stabilization done by a user.
Another vote for this. It is one of the more well known Haskell apps out there. hledger hledger-ui hledger-web hledger-lib I tried installing it from the Haskell overlay. After lots and lots of prompts to add this or that to package.accept_keywords, and with a lot of manual interventions, I still couldn't get it to build. The stumbling point is resourcet - I just cannot install any version of it in the overlay that hledger would need. After two nights of this I gave up. This requires a lot more expertise than I have. Please bring into the Portage tree.
hledger is the most active ledger forks/projects - just see its release notes history: https://hledger.org/release-notes.html It would be really awesome to have it out of the box. After all, there are way less popular packages in the Gentoo main tree...
Re: Summary: ... app-office/ledger fork Is hledger really a fork? I thought it's a rewrite in Haskell, where ledger was written in C++?
At this stage it is neither. It does not support all of Ledger's features, and has its own features that Ledger doesn't.
