[GNC] Finance::Quote: CPAN or GitHub?

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Aug 6 10:48:08 EDT 2018



> On Aug 2, 2018, at 7:19 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>> On Aug 2, 2018, at 5:59 AM, Daniel Rosenberg <dnlrsnbrg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I recently discovered that there is a more up to date version of
>> Finance::Quote on GitHub than on CPAN (last update made in november 2017).
>> I am using GnuCash 3.2 on WIndows 10 with Strawberry Perl. When I use
>> gnc-fq-update it seems to got to CPAN and not GitHub, is that correct?
>> 
>> I am having trouble getting Alphavantage quotes for 4 or 5 days now, and I
>> read that the Alphavantage.pm on GitHub already adresses some problems.
>> Do I need to switch to GitHub? How do I do that?
> 
> No, the latest release on Github is 1.47, the same as is available in CPAN. There are unreleased changes in the Finance Quote repo just like there are unreleased changes in the GnuCash repo and pretty much every repo on Github or anywhere else.
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> You can’t “switch to Github”, it’s not an alternative location for distributing perl packages. You can clone the repository and build Finance Quote by hand if you’re comfortable with the Perl build system. Otherwise you just have to wait for Erik to do a release.

I cloned the repo over the weekend and tried it out, and although it’s even slower than it was before (already much slower than Yahoo! was) it did retrieve all of my prices, which 1.47 failed to do.

Erik, please do release the current repository state as soon as you have time.

Regards,
John Ralls


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