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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 57 |
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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index 7f091a33..01496677 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -107,4 +107,5 @@ all-clean: maintainer-clean .libs build AUTHORS COPYING INSTALL Makefile acconf.h \ acconf.h.in aclocal.m4 autom4te config.guess config.sub \ configure depcomp install-sh libtool ltconfig ltmain.sh \ - missing stamp texinfo.tex Makefile.in mkinstalldirs + missing stamp texinfo.tex Makefile.in mkinstalldirs \ + elisp-comp @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + Ledger NEWS * 2.5 @@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ - Entries that contain a single transaction with no amount now always balance, even if multiple commodities are involved. This means that - the following is now supported which wasn't previously: + the following is now supported, which wasn't previously: 2004/06/21 Adjustment Retirement 100 FUNDA @@ -127,25 +128,23 @@ - Fixed several bugs relating to QIF parsing, budgeting and forecasting. -- The configure process now looks for libexpat, in addition to - searching for libxmlparse+libxmltok (which is how expat used to be - packaged). +- The configure process now looks for libexpat in addition to + searching for libxmlparse+libxmltok (how expat used to be packaged). * 2.3 - The directive "!alias ALIAS = ACCOUNT" makes it possible to use - "ALIAS" as an alternate account name in a textual ledger file. + "ALIAS" as an alternative name for ACCOUNT in a textual ledger file. + You might use this to associate the single word "Bank" with the + checking account you use most, for example. -- The --version page shows which optional modules ledger has been - configured for. +- The --version page shows the optional modules ledger was built with. - Fixed several minor problems, plus a few major ones dealing with imprecise date parsing. * 2.2 -New features: - - Ledger now compiles under gcc 2.95. - Fixed several core engine bugs, and problems with Ledger's XML data @@ -229,12 +228,14 @@ New features: * 2.1 -Very few new features: - - Improved the autoconf system to be smarter about finding XML libs + - Added --no-cache option, to always ignore any binary cache file + - `ledger-reconcile' (in ledger.el) no longer asks for a number of days + - Fixed %.XY format, where X is shorter than the string generated by Y + - New directive for text files: "D <COMM>" specifies the default commodity used by the entry command @@ -242,11 +243,12 @@ Very few new features: This version represents a full rewrite, while preserving much of the original data format and command-line syntax. There are too many new -options to describe in full, but a quick list: value expressions, -complex date masks, binary caching of ledger data, many new reporting -options, a simple way to specify payee regexps, calculation and -display predicates, and two-way Python integration. Ledger also uses -autoconf now, and builds as a library plus the command-line driver. +features to describe in full, but a quick list: value expressions, +complex date masks, binary caching of ledger data, several new +reporting options, a simple way to specify payee regexps, calculation +and display predicates, and two-way Python integration. Ledger also +uses autoconf now, and builds as a library in addition to a +command-line driver. ** Differences from 1.7 @@ -399,20 +401,21 @@ autoconf now, and builds as a library plus the command-line driver. * 1.7 -- Pricing histories are now supported, so that ledger remembers - historical pricing of all commodities, and can give register reports - based on past and present market values as well as the original cost - basis. See the manual for more details on the new option switches. +- Pricing histories are now supported, so that ledger remembers the + historical prices of all commodities, and can present register + reports based on past and present market values as well as original + cost basis. See the manual for more details on the new option + switches. * 1.6 -- Can now parse timeclock files. These are simple timelogs that track - in/out events, which can be maintained using my timeclock tool. By - allowing ledger to parse these, it means that reporting can be done - on them in the same way as a ledger file (the commodities is "h", - for hours); and it means that doing things like tracking billable - hours for clients, and invoicing those clients to transfer those - hours into a dollar value via a receivable account, is now trivial. +- Ledger can now parse timeclock files. These are simple timelogs + that track in/out events, which can be maintained using my timeclock + tool. By allowing ledger to parse these, it means that reporting + can be done on them in the same way as ledger files (the commodity + used is "h", for hours); it means that doing things like tracking + billable hours for clients, and invoicing those clients to transfer + hours into dollar values via a receivable account, is now trivial. See the docs for more on how to do this. - Began keeping a NEWS file. :) |