Update-Finance-Quote dependancy of libwww-perl

[Derek Atkins]

If Finance::Quote depends on libwww-perl, then:

        CPAN::Shell->install('Finance::Quote');

should pull it in in the Finance::Quote CPAN dependencies.   This is
not a Gnucash bug.

-derek

David <decibel8@charter.net> writes:

> Hello,
>      The script that comes with GnuCash doesn't check if libwww-perl
> is installed, which it won't work without.
> I emailed the Finance::Quote developer and he agrees that something
> should be done, but it isn't his script.
> 
>     Gentoo is the only distro that I have had GnuCash installed on, so
> I don't know about the others. Maybe some
> install libwww-perl my default.
> 
>     I wrote a patch to add a line to the script saying basically that
> libwww-perl must be installed for Quotes to work
> in GnuCash.  I don't really want to deploy the patch though. I would
> prefer the fix came from the people developing
> GnuCash.
> 
>     Gentoo didn't want to make another dep, frankly because GnuCash
> doesn't depend on libwww-perl. But a notice
> of the fact was agreed on. One suggestion was at the end of GnuCash
> build process. I think it would be more appropriate
> to put it in the Update-Finance-Script. Because people may not
> remember that notice if they install the Finance::Quote
> Perl module later.
> 
>     So can something be done on your end to add a notice in the script
> that libwww-perl needs to be installed also?
> 
> Thanks, Dave
> 
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