retire the old (non-tabular) balance report layout ?

[Simon Michael]

Old, Ledger-style balance reports look like this:

$ hledger -f examples/sample.journal bal
$-1 assets
$1 bank:saving
$-2 cash
$2 expenses
$1 food
$1 supplies
$-2 income
$-1 gifts
$-1 salary
$1 liabilities:debts
--------------------
0

New, tabular balance reports look like this:

$ hledger -f examples/sample.journal bal -Y
Balance changes in 2008:

|| 2008
====================++======
assets:bank:saving || $1
assets:cash || $-2
expenses:food || $1
expenses:supplies || $1
income:gifts || $-1
income:salary || $-1
liabilities:debts || $1
--------------------++------
|| 0

How would y'all feel about dropping the first style entirely, in favour of the second ? (If no interval is specified, the column heading would be the full date span of the journal.)

It's giving up a bit of history. But these are two separate code paths, which is really costly to maintain, and I would dearly love to retire the old one.

The new one is missing a feature: eliding of boring parents. I would implement that, I guess.

Thoughts ?

[Simon Michael]

PS the tabular reports default to flat mode, but can show tree mode as well, of course.

[Francesco Ariis]

Post by Simon Michael
How would y'all feel about dropping the first style entirely, in favour
of the second ?

No problem to me, just advertise --tree in the release notes
-F

[Dmitry Astapov]

I would be happy if old reports are retired

Post by Francesco Ariis

Post by Simon Michael
How would y'all feel about dropping the first style entirely, in favour
of the second ?

No problem to me, just advertise --tree in the release notes
-F
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[Robert Nielsen]

I have no problem with the old layout disappearing. If I understand things correctly, if I even needed the old version, I could just run the Ledger command.

Rob