[GNC] Discovered install link for Finance Quotes in Win11 app menu, but many questions in install.

[Bruce Schuck]

Sun Jun 16 09:53:52 EDT 2024, David G. Pickett wrote:

> I clicked the "Install Online Price Retrieval for GnuCash" in my new 
> Win11 install, but had manually download install Strawberry perl as 
> Norton blocked it.  I clicked it again and it went into a long 
> install that now is asking mysterious questions like USE_UNALIGNED or
> ZSTD. Shouldn't it run more unattended?
It should. Since I don't primarily use Windows, I'm wondering if 
Strawberry Perl changed the default setting for "use_prompt_default [0]" 
in the CPAN settings. While the Makefile for F::Q does not have a 
prompt, there are dependencies (and dependencies of dependencies) that 
prompt for user input. On a fresh install of Strawberry Perl I noticed 
that launching CPAN for the first time on a Windows 10 system did not go 
through the first time initialization process.

Setting PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT to "yes" before running CPAN will allow the 
Finance::Quote install to continue without needing user input. At least 
it did for me on Windows 10. I'm thinking the GnuCash team may want to 
set this in the tool that installs Strawberry Perl and F::Q for Windows. 
Probably would not hurt on Linux and Mac either.

Bruce S.