Finance::Quote Documentation

Kayhan Gultekin kayhan at hotpop.com
Thu Aug 21 00:59:57 CDT 2003


I just set up GnuCash to track my mutual fund including using online
quotes, and I came accross some items in the documentation that I think
should be changed.

1) In section 8.5.3.1 Installing Finance::Quote, it says to run
dump-finance-quote to test the installation of Finance::Quote, but from
what I found in the changelogs, this has been pulled from the
distribution (or maybe just the .rpm's).  Either the documentation
should say where it can be found or it shouldn't say to use the script. 
It wasn't in the first five Google results for it, and I'm too lazy to
look any further. :-)

2) I'm not sure if this is a bug or a documentation error.  After I
installed Finance::Quote with update-finance-quote, I had to close
GnuCash and restart in order for it to be able to use the Perl modules. 
I think it is completely reasonable to restart after installing a new
library, but it would be nice if the documentation reflected it:  "It
may be necessary to restart GnuCash in order for it to recognize the
update."

Would it be worth mentioning in the documentation how to install the
Perl modules locally for users without root access?

All in all, I'm quite happy after using GnuCash for 20 days.

kg




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