libofx in Debian

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Martin Preuss <aquamaniac at gmx.de>:

> Hi,
>
> On Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008, Derek Atkins wrote:
> [...]
>> Martin Preuss <aquamaniac at gmx.de> writes:
>> > Just for clarification: I do have sample OFX files, but none of them
>> > contains commodity/security transactions.
>>
>> I've just sent one (source: vanguard.com) via private email.
> [...]
>
> AqBanking3 now has rudimentary support for securities (i.e. it can 
> now extract
> basic information about securities from an OFX file, like name, security id,
> ticker symbol, price, number of units held etc).
>
> It still does not read security transactions (buy/sell stocks etc), but
> AqBanking3 has been prepared to make them available at a later time.

Excellent!  Great work.  I'm glad that the APIs have (finally) been
updated to support it.  That was going to be the harder problem, I think.
Once the APIs support it, then actually PROVIDING that information is
a Simple Matter of Programming..

> However, these changes are only available with AqBanking3 while GnuCash
> currently uses AqBanking2.

Yeah...  Up-porting to AqB3 is going to be a project.  Maybe we can get
a GSoC student to do it this year ;)

Thanks, Martin!

> Regards
> Martin

-derek
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