gnc's use of Finance::Quote needs Date::Manip

[Geert Janssens]

On Friday 03 April 2015 16:20:34 Wm wrote:
> On a new Win8.1 system I ran Install Online Price Retrieval.
> I needed to do
> 
> cpan install Date::Manip
> 
> by hand to get it to be useable (and pass the tests).
> 
> In case it was Win version specific I did it again on a clean WinXP
> VM. Same again.
> 
> Looking at the archives it seems whether or not it should be a
> requisite or dependency has gone back and forward a few times.  From
> where I am sitting it looks like it is needed.  Not a sticking point
> for someone familiar with perl but not much fun for people unfamiliar
> with command lines.

Can you add some more detail for debugging purposes ?
What version of GnuCash ?
What flavor of Perl (Strawberry or ActiveState) ?
What was the error did you get when Date::Manip was not installed ?

Thanks,

Geert