Finance::Quote Patch

[John Ralls]

On Apr 26, 2012, at 4:35 AM, Les wrote:

> On 4/24/12 8:53 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Apr 24, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Les Elliott wrote:
>> 
>>> I have been having problems with currency updates since Jan 2012 and filed
>>> a bug report, received a reply with a patch.
>>> I am using Mac OSX and Gnucash 2.4.10 and F::Q 1.17.  Unfortunately, I
>>> don't have a clue how to apply the patch.  Can someone point me to some
>>> instructions please?
>>> tia
>> The files you need to patch are in /Library/Perl/5.x/Finance/Quote/
>> 
>> The "x" in 5.x is a number which depends on which version of OSX you're running; 10 for Snow Leopard and 12 for Lion.
>> 
>> To apply the patch, use "patch"; run `man patch` in Terminal for detailed instructions.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
> Thanks for the post on updating with a patch file.  I have a question
> though: why is it so much effort to install a patch?  If the patch
> "fixes" a general problem, then why does it not "automatically"  update
> like most patches (system updates)?  I am again, not technical, but
> curious. 


F::Q is a separate project, and while there is someone updating their code repository he's not making releases. If he ever does, you'll be able to update F::Q by re-running the update-finance-quote program included with Gnucash. In the meantime, you have to do it the hard way.

Regards,
John Ralls