Gnucash/AqBanking Packaging

[Derek Atkins]

Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:

>> How about JavaScript? We're already bundling Webkit-Gtk, and that
>> includes a JavaScript interpreter and all of the web paraphernalia.
>> It shouldn't be too hard to write a C routine to exec a JavaScript
>> program and retrieve the result.
>
> The language it's written in is not the issue.  Maintaining the price
> quote software is a big job because the various web sites it scrapes
> for prices keep changing.  Rewriting it in Python, Javascript, or
> anything else won't help that.

No, but if *we* maintain it ourselves the we wouldn't be depending on a
third party to keep it up to date -- we could just push an update.  And
even better, if it WERE Javascript we could even theoretically host a
copy on www.gnucash.org!  That would let us update the grabber code for
everyone is near-real-time!

>            Mike

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-derek

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