Finance::Quote for EE Savings Bonds

[David Carlson]

Ken,

You have obviously devoted a significant amount of time to the entire
process needed to track EE bonds in GnuCash and I think that it would be
nice to document your work in a way that other users could find it and
benefit from it.

I am not a developer nor do I know the best place in the WIKI or FAQ to
document your work, but if another could point out the best place to put
it, I would at least like to see links to this thread documented.

David C

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 9:09 PM, farleykj <farleykj at gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
> I'm not sure which item you're referring to, so I'll say a bit about each:
> (1) As far as I can figure, if I want to add a quote source, like US EE/E/I
> savings bonds, I have to write my own Perl code to get it done. The
> existing
> Finance::Quote modules just don't work, or at least not when I tried to use
> them. To add a quote source, I needed to modify the Quote.pm code to add
> the
> name of my new routine. I don't really see any way around doing a bit of
> Perl stuff. I didn't want to have to do this, and had to learn the
> rudiments
> of the language to do so.
> (2) Setting the symbols for the bonds was just a matter of my personal
> preferences. Hopefully they're logical and easy to remember, but probably
> not what someone else would come up with off the cuff.
> (3) My troubles with connecting with the treasurydirect.gov site are a bit
> of a mystery to me, and the so-called "solutions" were somewhat
> experimental, involving a lot of "error message text" searches. Each time
> it
> seemed that some module or program (openssl, the last time) had suddenly
> become outdated and insufficient.
> I understand that we'd not want the average user fiddling about with Perl
> code, but could something like the quote setup code be used to "install"
> bond quote accessing code "automatically"? Might be a bit messy...
>
>
>
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