Update-Finance-Quote dependancy of libwww-perl.

Decibels decibelshelp@charter.net
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:17:36 -0500


Haven't heard anymore on this. Can I assume that this issue will be 
worked on and
drop the bug report at Gentoo?


Derek Atkins wrote:

>Decibels <decibelshelp@charter.net> writes:
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>>That sounds pretty reasonable to me, as long as you could get it from
>>the GnuCash site.
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>Of course you could get it from the gnucash site, right next to gnucash-XX.rpm
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>>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.
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>Don't worry about how that would work..
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>>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.
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>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.
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>-derek
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