Finance::Quote Documentation

[Derek Atkins]

Kayhan Gultekin <kayhan at hotpop.com> writes:

> 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. :-)

They are surely distributed with the gnucash.org RPMs, and it is
distributed in the GnuCash source tree.  If you download binary
packages from elsewhere you should contact the maintainer of those
packages.

> 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."

Agreed.

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

I think this is out of scope for our documentation, IMHO.

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

-derek

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