Commodities initialization list

[Phil Longstaff]

I recently found the need to add a new stock which is traded on the TSX
(Toronto Stock Exchange). Why do we hard-code commodity sources? I don't
want to have to recompile to use a new exchange.

Phil

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:01 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 11, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 10 August 2015 16:29:25 John Ralls wrote:
> >>> On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Ngewi Fet <ngewif at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello everyone,
> >>> Could someone point out to me where the commodities list is found in
> >>> the repository?
> >>>
> >>> I tried searching the repo and can find code which seems to indicate
> >>> that there is a file which is loaded into the database on
> >>> application start. But I cannot find the list itself.
> >>>
> >>> I would like to initialize the Android app with the same list of
> >>> commodities as the desktop version.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>
> >> There’s a currency list in src/engine/commodity-table.scm which holds
> >> the ISO currencies. All other commodities are user-defined.
> >>
> > I wasn't aware of that file. Upon inspection it contains a list of
> > commodity sources (CURRENCY, NASDAQ,...).
> >
> > As Derek replied the iso currencies themselves are in
> > src/engine/iso-4217-currencies.xml
> >
> > At build time this xml file is translated into a c source file via xslt,
> > using
> > src/engine/iso-currencies-to-c.xsl
>
> Sorry, I stand corrected. I’d forgotten that we’d changed the currency
> table from scheme to xml in 2.6 and went looking for a scheme file. Guess I
> should have looked *in* the scheme file before saying anything!
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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