[GNC] [GNC-dev] Finance::Quote on Mac M1 OSX Ventura

[John Ralls]

> On May 17, 2023, at 22:34, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> On 5/17/23 7:02 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> That's interesting, but running your test from the end of that GitHub issue I get:
>> ```
>> $ Hector:/Users/john> perl -MTest2::Plugin::NoWarnings -e 'print "$Test2::Plugin::NoWarnings::VERSION\n"'
>> 0.09
>> $ Hector:/Users/john> perl -MTest2 -e 'print "$Test2::VERSION\n"'
>> 1.302193
>> ```
>> DateTime::Locale also installs without error including passing all of its tests. Mind, I've had F::Q installed on it for a while.
>> I'm running the current 13.4 developer beta.
> 
> On the virgin OS out of the box, Test2 module is in the included Perl but its version is 1.302162 (at least on 13.3.1). But if you look at the file /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.30/Test2/Plugin/NoWarnings.pm, line 9 is
> 
> use Test2 1.302167;
> 
> One would think that if the OS supplied bundle has a Perl module that requires at minimum version of another module, the required module would be that version or later. Not the case. The key here is until doing this testing ** no other additional perl modules were installed **.
> 
> Either 13.4 has more recent modules in the OS supplied Perl, or you updated Test2 at some point in the past.
> 
> I probably should have add the output of
> 
> perl -MTest2 -e 'print "$Test2::VERSION\n"'
> 
> in my comment, but before I installed *any* additional modules, it was 1.302162 as noted above.
> 
> I didn't want remove the OS supplied Test2::Plugin::NoWarnings, but I would bet reinstalling it would trigger the correct dependency of Test2 also getting installed. The 0.09 version already installed/included is the most current release.

Bruce,

Indeed, /System/Library/Perl/5.30/Test2.pm version is 1.302167. 1.302193 is the version in /Library/Perl/5.30/Test2.pm meaning that I installed it via cpan. I added it to gnc-fq-update a couple of years ago to deal with https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798180.

Regards,
John Ralls