Obsolete function yahoo-get-historical-quotes

[Geert Janssens]

Thanks for all the feedback - done.

Geert

On Thursday 24 April 2014 07:27:00 Christian Stimming wrote:
> +1 from me. Just go ahead and delete it.
> 
> Christian
> 
> On 24. April 2014 04:52:07 MESZ, John Ralls 
<jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us> wrote:
> >On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger
> >
> ><frank.h.ellenberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Geert,
> >> 
> >> Am 23.04.2014 14:57, schrieb Geert Janssens:
> >>> I stumbled upon this function while evaluating the patch on
> >>> Bug 726164 guile-www-2.37 compatibility [1].
> >>> 
> >>> yahoo-get-historical-quotes turns out to be the only consumer of
> >>> the
> >>> 
> >>> guile-www module the bug is referring to. However I can't find any
> >
> >part
> >
> >>> of the gnucash code that actually is using this function. As far
> >>> as
> >
> >I
> >
> >>> can tell it's a relic from the time that gnucash was still
> >>> primarily
> >>> 
> >>> coded in guile.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm about to remove this function unless someone shouts ?
> >> 
> >> I don't know, if it ever worked, but in my eyes it would be a nice
> >> to
> >
> >have.
> >
> >There are thousands of lines of "Nice to have but never quite
> >implemented" in GnuCash. They make GnuCash harder to maintain, bigger
> >than it needs to be, and sometimes as here drag in dependencies to no
> >useful purpose. It's cruft, and we need to get rid of it.
> >
> >Don't ask, just delete. Every line of code is immortal in the VCS and
> >can be brought back if someone needs it for an actual feature. Until
> >that time, it's just in the way.
> >
> >Regards,
> >John Ralls
> >
> >
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