[GNC] F::Q Currency Issues

[WR D]

Thanks for that tip!

As also mentioned in the Github comments (from user 'talliberman')  of that #230 pull request,  for Windows installation,  I just copied the updated alphavantage.pm to overwrite the one  the perl CurrencyRates  folder and Get Quotes is now updating currencies again.

For Windows users  ... don't make the mistake I made - I first overwrote the alphavantage file found in "C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Finance\Quote", but this change actually needs to go into "C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Finance\Quote\CurrencyRates" 

The same file name alphavantage.pm is found in both folders but I believe they are not the same, and only CurrencyRates version needs updating.   

Luckily I made a copy of the files before updating so was easy to revert my mistake (or if the update does not later pass review).


-----Original Message-----
From: gnucash-user <gnucash-user-bounces+dullege=hotmail.com at gnucash.org> On Behalf Of Jim DeLaHunt
Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2022 1:52 PM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: [GNC] F::Q Currency Issues


On 2022-08-15 17:48, Bruce Schuck wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> As I am now the F::Q team member with CPAN/Pause upload priv, please 
> have patience. I had to unexpectedly travel out of state for a family 
> matter. I am not sure how long I will be away, but it will be at least 
> a few days before I have time to review and merge the pull request.
> Definitely longer before I can push a new release to CPAN.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience, thank you for everyone's patience and 
> understanding.
>
Bruce, thank you for your work on Finance::Quote.  I'm sure everyone here in GnuCash-land is ready to give you that patience and understanding which you so reasonably ask for.

For anyone foolhardy and adventurous enough to patch your own installation of Finance::Quote with the fix — the one which Bruce has not yet had the chance to review — there are instructions in the GnuCash bug report at <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798599#c9>. 
Basically, you find out where Finance::Quote is installed in your copy of Perl, you download a single file from Github, and store it in place of the version which is already installed. It might require a `sudo` and administrator password. It seems to have worked for me, but of course you must assume your own risk if you try it.

> - Bruce S.
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