Thoughts about the stock quote database

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:55:30 -0800


David Merrill writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:47:04PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > Paul Fenwick writes:
> > > 
> > > The good news is that I'm giving up the day-job to go back to
> > > consulting, which should hopefully leave me with much more time
> > > for open-source development and other things I enjoy.  :)  The
> > > real leap in free-time will happen in mid-January, so I'll
> > > probably still be a little scarce until then.
> > 
> > We'll be glad to have you back :) Rob B. is going to do our price db
> > and, in the process, hopefully use some of F::Q's new features.
> 
> I'm getting into this in mid-conversation, but is this price db going
> to actually be *in* a db, or are you using the term loosely? iow,
> should I be working with Rob or is this a completely independent
> project?

Right now, we're using it loosely, and it will probably be stored
in the gnucash flat-file or in a separate flat-file. But eventually
it will probably be in a real db and possibly be a separate project
from gnucash. But we are talking long-term now.

dave