[OT] Announcement: lb 1.0.0 (The Little Budget Tool)

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:29, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce the release of lb version 1.0.0.  This is a program
> that collates your budget (in a CSV file) with a GnuCash cash flow report
> to give you an accurate accounting of where you are budget-wise.
>
> As most of you know, the GnuCash devs are working on adding budgeting tools
> to GnuCash.  This is designed to help you (well, me) get by until that is
> done.
>
> Please see http://www.teuton.org/~gabriel/lb for the download.  This
> application is only distributed in source code.
>
> New features:
>
> * Now handles multiple budget and report files at once, giving a YTD
>   statement along side the 'current' month.
>
> * Now has a configuration file (.lbrc) that allows you to configure
>   the report according to the types of accounts that you have.
>
> * Has an optional GUI front-end (Qt-based).
>
> * Added man pages.
>
> License:  GPL.
>
> Peace,
> Gabriel
>
Please make a small change to the README; you have left out ./configure
LIz

<quote>
INSTALLATION
============

See the INSTALL file.  In most cases you will just need to do:

$ tar xjf lb-1.0.0.tar.bz2
$ cd lb-1.0.0
$ make
$ su
Password:
# make install
</quote>

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