Does --add-price-quotes also get currencies ?

Charles Day cedayiv at gmail.com
Wed May 6 16:41:50 EDT 2009


On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:19 PM, AmigaPhil <AmigaPhil at ping.be> wrote:

> Mike Alexander wrote:
>
> >> - With the command line, I get the value EUR-USD (price in USD for 1
> >> EUR) - From the Quotes Editor, I get USD-EUR (price in EUR for 1 USD)
> >>
> >> As my default device is EURO, I guess GnuCash is only using the
> >> USD-EUR values when doing exchange calculations.  Am I right ?
> >>
> >> If so, is there a way to automate the update of USD-EUR when a new
> >> value is added for EUR-USD (and the other way around) ?
> >
> > This sounds like <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568945>
> > which was fixed in January.  I'm not sure what release (if any) the fix
> > has appeared in.
>
> Yes, it seems so.  But instead of updating the reciprocal exchange rate
> when one currency value is added, the patch looks like it make GnuCash
> internally check for both reciprocal exchange rate (hopefully picking the
> latest one of the two).  If so, that's fine too.
>
> Can someone confirm this problem is fixed in 2.2.8 or 2.2.9 ?
>

The fix was released in 2.2.9.

-Charles


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