Issues/suggestions re online quotes

Donald Allen donaldcallen at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 14:19:30 EDT 2009


1. At least on OpenBSD, the online quotes-related programs that are
mentioned in the Tutorial and Concepts Guide -- update-finance-quote
and dump-finance-quote -- are actually named gnc-fq-update and
gnc-fq-dump. This is also the case on my wife's Windows installation.
In trying to debug why my newly-installed gnucash on an OpenBSD system
was graying-out the "Get Quotes" button, I was mightily confused by
the divergence between the documentation and the truth. The document
needs to be fixed.

2. In doing the OpenBSD gnucash (2.2.8)  install, I also installed the
p5-Finance-Quote package. This is not sufficient to get online quotes
to work. But gnucash was silent, even in the log with extra logging
enabled, about the reason why quotes weren't working, despite the
presence of the Finance-Quote package, which the Tutorial and Concepts
Guide would have you believe *is* sufficient. I finally picked through
the code, and ran gnc-fq-check manually, discovering that the
p5-DateManip packages was also needed. At the very least, gnucash
should report what gnc-fq-check has to say if it fails, perhaps to
stderr and/or to the log file. I've just retired and have more time
available now. After the just-retired transient settles down, I can
take a look at this and suggest a patch, if no one else has time to
work on it.

/Don


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