[GNC] [GNC-dev] Finance Quote 1.50 release candidate 1 is available

[John Ralls]

> On Mar 8, 2021, at 2:37 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, my mail client insists on munging part of my original message on re-
> sending, so here's a manually edited one with my full comment...
> 
> Op zondag 7 maart 2021 20:39:00 CET schreef John Ralls:
>> Not offhand, but it's quite possible that adding symbol fixes the problem.
>> Did you try gnc-fq-helper, and if so what was its output?
>> 
> On a tangent, why does gnucash require a symbol key ? The full hash keys also 
> have the symbol name, albeit in a weird format that can be converted into a 
> proper two-dimensional hash without too much trouble. I'm doing that in my 
> work in progress branch:
> https://github.com/gjanssens/gnucash/blob/
> c847fa3aa4a5f90fa4dbf93673d3668e9ddc9e22/libgnucash/quotes/finance-quote-
> wrapper.in#L107
> 
> What would be the potential issues if we decided to make the symbol key 
> optional, assuming we also fix the code to use the symbol part of the hash 
> keys of course ?

gnc-fq-helper already does do that, see https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/libgnucash/quotes/gnc-fq-helper.in#L241.

I guess we should remove the warning from gnc-fq-dump, it seems to be misleading.

Regards,
John Ralls