Budgeting support is a much requested extension to GnuCash. It is something that I really would like to see, but there seems to be a bit of confusion as to what and how the user base would like to see it implemented. To that end I've written a discussion of how I would like to see simple budgeting implemented. This is (hopefully) a starting point for further discussion...

Hopefully either I (or someone else???) will go through the gnucash-devel mailing list and distill the ideas already discussed into something more user-friendly. However, until that happens, here is the mailing list up until the 17th of August 2003.

This has (fortunately) turned into quite a lively debate on the gnucash-users mailing list. You can see how this is all evolving by following the link given below.

I have written a (first draft) summary of the discussions in the above mailing list from 21 August 2003 -- 6 September 2003.

Budgeting Summary - 1	papers/gnucash/Budgeting_Summary_1.ps   (sig)
Area: Budgeting	papers/gnucash/Budgeting_Summary_1.pdf   (sig)
If you want to hack this document I have a LaTeX (sig), or text (sig) source available. I'd appreciate it if you sent me the changes and then I could keep this version up-to-date.

I always make my own RPM install of each release of GnuCash. However as the GnuCash 1.8 base release is (still!) RH7.3 I have to hack (admittedly only very slightly) the .spec file to make it Fedora compatible.

As I occasionally get requests for either the .spec file, or the .rpm I create, here are some links. Please note that I only will be keeping the most recent GnuCash release available.