F_Q is still broken [Was: Exchange rate dowload failing]

[David Hampton]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:05 -0600, Stewart V. Wright wrote: 
> [Apologies for going OT here.]
> 
> G'day David,
> 
> * David Hampton <hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> [051115 21:30]:
> > Yahoo changed the web page for currency quotes.  You should grab the
> > latest (cvs) Finance::Quote sources from sourceforge.net.
> 
> You've been saying this for a while but it doesn't seem to work for
> me...  (Yeah, I know I should file a bug report, but SF.net was
> playing up last time I tried.)
> 
> All of the tests fail.

All?  I don't see that.  Did you let the tests run to completion?

> For the latest CVS (checked out this morning):
> 
> $ ln -s test t
> $ perl Makefile.PL prefix=${HOME}/src/finance_quote/xxx
> $ make && make test
>  ...
> [SNIP]

Yes, there are some problems with the tests in current F::Q CVS.  There
are almost always problems as companies are continually tweaking their
web sites.  (IIRC, there were no failures when F::Q 1.10 shipped.)  I
get the following summary from 'make test' on an install from cvs:

Failed Test        Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/aex.t                          11   23 209.09%  2-7 9-10 12-26
t/asx.t             255 65280    11    2  18.18%  11
t/cdnfundlibrary.t    2   512     8   16 200.00%  1-8
t/indiamutual.t                  44   42  95.45%  2-43
t/trustnet.t                     12   10  83.33%  2-11
t/yahoo.t                        11    2  18.18%  8-9
t/yahoo_brasil.t                  9    1  11.11%  2

The currency tests are not listed here as failing.  Testing F::Q cvs, I
get the following results:

$ ./currency-lookup.pl AUD USD
AUD->USD = 0.7328

$ echo '(currency "USD" "AUD")' | finance-quote-helper
(("USD" (symbol . "USD") (last . 1.3679) (currency . "AUD")))

So I am getting currency quotes back.  Have you installed F::Q cvs or
just downloaded it and run 'make test'?

I don't see currency quotes appearing in Gnucash when I click "Get
Quotes", but I'm not sure if that's GnuCash or just my data file.  I
need to investigate more.

David

P.S. I started working through the F::Q test results last night.  So far
they're the result of several mutual funds in test scripts that no
longer exist on the exchanges, a slightly redesigned web site that has
extra blank table rows, and some change to perl or a perl module that
prints warnings where it didn't before.