Using my own F::Q module

[Linas Vepstas]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Henrik Ahlgren was heard to remark:
> I have written a Finance::Quote::HEX module to fetch quotes 
> from the Helsinki Stock Exchange in Finland. 
> 
> However it seems that it is not possible to use custom made
> Finance::Quote modules in Gnucash without modifying the C
> source. Gnucash uses the finance-quote-check script to check wheter
> Finance::Quote is working but it ignores it's output and uses a
> hard-coded list in app-utils/gnc-ui-util.c to provide the list of
> available quote sources to the user. (Am I right?)

Yep

> Is there any way to override this list without patching the C source
> and recompiling Gnucash? If not, please consider changing Gnucash so
> that new price sources could be added more easily.

This has been talked about in the past, but no one has fixed it yet ...

--linas

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