Installing Finance::Quote

[David T.]

OK. I misunderstood what you wrote, then.

I have added a bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771230 <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771230>

David

> On Sep 11, 2016, at 1:23 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Sep 10, 2016, at 10:32 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> John,
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>> It seems to me that not mentioning Perl at all is problematic. How is Perl different from discussing other such packages, such as Python, which is optional but necessary for certain features? Or does the WIndows script handle all the Perl installation automatically? If so, then this section could just read: 
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>> Microsoft Windows: Close GnuCash. Run Install Online Price Retrieval in the GnuCash “Start” menu entry.
> 
> David,
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> I didn't say that it shouldn't mention perl at all, just that it shouldn't have a separate "install perl" step. The "Install Online Quote Retrieval" program will install Strawberry Perl unless it finds that the user has already installed either ActiveState or Strawberry, in which case it will skip to running gnc-fq-update.
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> Yes, the section could say that. 
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls