Update-Finance-Quote dependancy of libwww-perl.
Derek Atkins
warlord@MIT.EDU
22 Oct 2002 13:30:13 -0400
Decibels <decibelshelp@charter.net> writes:
> That sounds pretty reasonable to me, as long as you could get it from
> the GnuCash site.
Of course you could get it from the gnucash site, right next to gnucash-XX.rpm
> The main program would still have to look for the new quotes package
> to see if it's install(ed) each time it was started.
> Or the install of gnucash-get-quotes package would have to set a flag
> in the main program config to say it is installed
> and show the button (Get Quotes) in the Price Editor then.
Don't worry about how that would work..
> How bout instead of not showing the button (Get Quotes), have it
> Greyed Out? Not sure if that would cause
> any less confusion, but it might let people know that the option
> wasn't enabled, rather than having them think
> the install failed.
Hmm, I suppose we could grey it out, but that would be more
challening. Plugging in new menu items is relatively easy. Greying
them out is more challenging. I'll take a look.
-derek
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