Get Online Quotes not updating currency rates since 2.6.9

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Nov 1 15:45:18 EST 2015


> On Nov 1, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, you didn't
> You said:
> 
> "2.6.8 & 9 store currency exchange rates in the direction that the rate > 1
> to reduce rounding. That causes problems in some places because the price
> lookup wasn’t right and fixing that turned out to be a significant change,
> so the feature has been removed for 2.6.10 and will reappear with re-written
> lookup functions in 2.8.0."
> 
> "Problems in some places" is very vague and you didn't say that was what my
> problem was. I just thought I hadn't found the new place the rates were
> being stored.
> 
> I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out what was going
> wrong. Maybe if you'd just said 
> it doesn't work in 2.6.9 so stick with 2.6.7 until it's fixed then it would
> have saved me a lot of time and effort.

You didn’t say what was your problem, you just said that the rates weren’t getting stored. They are stored, and they do work for some things. I can’t read your mind to learn what the real problem is. Sorry that you went off and did a bunch of troubleshooting instead of simply asking a better question or spending a few minutes with the list archives.

Regards,
John Ralls


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