[GNC] Finance::Quote v1.54 Released

[R Losey]

Thanks; I was hoping it had its own update script.

Well, it took a couple of tries... as a long-time C programmer, I have gcc
installed.

The first time, I ran the update, and it spit out pages and pages of text,
but ultimately failed.  Looking back, I could see that it had a problem
with not finding 'make', which (to my surprise, wasn't installed).  I
installed it, and tried again; it spit out even more output, but seemed to
work, but I would certainly not call it "quick".

I'd like to get my hands on the update source, and see if I can add code to
verify that what it needs is present.  How much simpler this would have
been if it had said something like:

"ERROR: make is not installed or not in the command path. Please correct
and try again"

same thing for anything else it needs... from your script, gcc is needed
(?).  I assume that the script itself won't run without perl installed.

The above are Linux-centric, but at least the checks could be pretty simply
added to the Linux area... I'm comfortable with doing things like that in
scripting for Linux, but I don't have as much experience with Windows or
MacOS scripts.


On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 3:36 PM Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com>
wrote:

> On 12/27/22 9:08 AM, R Losey wrote:
>
> > I have version 1.52 installed on Ubuntu 22.04LTS... it came as a
> > package.  What do I need to do to install the update? Is there a
> > script to run for updates? Do I need to build it myself?
>
> Dropped gnucash-devel from the Cc.
>
> The good folks on the GnuCash team will point you to "gnc-fq-update",
> which itself is small Perl wrapper script which calls CPAN.
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#gnc-fq-update
>
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes#Installing_Finance::Quote_using_CPAN
>
> It takes Ubuntu/Canonical some time to update their packages, so they
> are usually at least a major release or two behind.
>
> Updating from F::Q v1.52 to v1.54 should be quick using CPAN. But
> therein lies the caveat with Perl and CPAN. Occasionally additional
> modules or updates to existing ones require compilation of C code. While
> the CPAN mechanism will take care of this, it will require a development
> environment. At the very least the basic gcc/g++ packages and gmake.
>
> - Bruce S.
>
>

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