[GNC] Finance::Quote morningstar uk (and europe?) have changed stuff

[Wm]

On 01/12/2019 15:36, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Nov 30, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Wm via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
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>> On 24/11/2019 23:07, Richard Ullger wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 24 November 2019 04:05:23 GMT Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
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>>>> Which OS and perl version are you on?  At the moment it is looking like
>>>> gnc might need a more recent version of strawberry perl on Win but I
>>>> can't quite work out why.  If you (or anyone else) let me know your
>>>> version stuff I'll try and work it out and take it up in the dev list or
>>>> with the FQ people as appropriate.
>>> I'm running gnucash on Arch Linux, perl version 5.30.1 https://www.perl.org/
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>> Getting a more up to date perl on Win sorted it out.  I'll put this on the bug-list as it seems gnc on Win has no way of working out when it needs a new perl.
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> Perl 5 is very stable in terms of language features and mstaruk.pm has had only a couple of string changes--no code--since it was first contributed 6 years ago.
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> The problem was more likely that something was wrong with the perl instance: Either it got corrupted or Microsoft pushed a subtly incompatible change to one of its dependencies. Did you try reinstalling the same version of perl that you had?

Nope, I generally prefer a newer working perl

What is your resistance to a nice new perl if there is some oddity in a 
previous one?

Some people don't like change.

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Wm