Price editor no longer works with TIAA-CREF

[davelist at mac.com]

> On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:29 PM, Ulrich Hopfer <uhopfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As of January 1, 2015, the Price Editor of gnucash no longer fetches the price quotes from TIAA-CREF. Has anyone had a similar experience?
> Did TIAA-CREF change the website so that the Perl script needs to be changed?  Where is the script located?
> 
> I updated today to version 2.6.5. But saw no difference.
> 
> I would appreciate any hints.
> 
> Ulrich Hopfer  uhopfer at gmail.com

I can at least confirm that I'm no longer downloading new TIAA-CREF prices so it's not just you. Looks like we'll have to wait for someone to fix the finance quote perl scripts. Once they do and posts a patch, I can apply the patch and post an updated Tiaacref.pm that you can use to replace that file on your computer (without having to wait for a release from gnucash and/or finance-quote). I don't know Perl well enough to try to fix it, but once someone does, I can help make it easy for gnucash users to replace that file.

On a Mac, the file is somewhere like this (the numeric version may be different):
/Library/Perl/5.16/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm
/Library/Perl/5.18/Finance/Quote/Tiaacref.pm

If you're on Linux, you can try:
locate Tiaacref.pm from the terminal/shell application.

I don't do Windows so I don't know where the file is on it.

Dave