Fava, importers, and beancount-import all work fine with v3 and I personally use all 3 with v3. I do recall some very minor patching being required at one point, primarily to update import names. As you've said by far the biggest change is in the importer structure.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 5:33 AM Alan H <a...@polyphase.ca> wrote: > My understanding is (I'm on v2) is that v3 is syntax-compatible with v2 so > the penalty (if there is one) for starting with V2 would be small. The > areas where there are clear gaps (to my mind) are: > > - web frontend - AFAICT Fava is Beancount v2 only. > - importers have changed substantially > - some third party systems might not yet support v3 (beancount-import > comes to mind - upon which I rely heavily). > > Pivoting this to the positive; I'd love to hear from folks using v3 and > what they use for 'favs-like' reporting / browsing and how they manage > imports. > I might be missing a trick here where you can switch between v2 and v3 > seamlessly (for example) and still do reporting using a v2 env and select > what you want from v3.? > > Anyone using V3 (and V2?) feel like commenting? > > Thanks > Alan > > > On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 11:33:38 AM UTC Colin Ingarfield wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> About a year ago I evaluated beancount to organize my finances. As >> recommended at the time I used v2. Made some good progress but my project >> fell to the wayside. >> >> Now I'm giving it another shot, and wondering if I should use v2 or v3? >> Getting all my financial info together is a fair bit of work, and I'd >> rather not change it all if v3 becomes "official" later this year. >> >> FWIW I'm a software developer, so if v3 requires use of git, C++ >> compilers, etc., that's not an issue. But if it's unstable then I'd rather >> move ahead with v2. >> >> Thanks for such a great tool. >> >> -- Colin >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/355eb4cb-0189-4679-af63-d10725289578n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/355eb4cb-0189-4679-af63-d10725289578n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CACGEkZszOAU7fk28wSPKyg0C8Ow04Xdak43kQWur8fFRvqWJXA%40mail.gmail.com.
