[GNC] v3.8: Budget "total" field

[Michael Hendry]

> On 3 Jan 2020, at 01:35, Adrien Monteleone via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> I thought that was discussed, but delving into the bug threads and others linked therein, I see the issue a bit more clearly.
> 
> Certainly, I think the current underlying approach is the more sane one long term with a few kinks to be worked out.
> 
> I (sadly and apologetically) still haven’t worked out a way to test dev versions on MacOS without disrupting my normal installation, but I can test non-OS specific changes via VMs. (I can certainly build maint or other branches in Ubuntu) If anyone has any suggestions or tips for testing maint and other builds on the MacOS front *without disturbing my normal stable installation* , they are certainly appreciated.

I haven’t tried this, but why not create a new user (e.g. “GCTest”) and run any experimental versions as that user. This would protect your own .gnucash files and configuration settings, as these are per-user, not per-computer.

Michael

> 
> I’m getting ready next week to work on my 2020 budgets, so now would be a good time to do some testing.
> 
> Let me know what types of things you’d like to see answers to and I’ll do what I can. (in a Linux version for now, as noted)
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien