[GNC] Finance::Quote Default Currency Module

[sunfish62 at yahoo.com]

In recent years, I've been using GnuCash on Windows machines, and the idea of environment variables is foreign, so providing that option is, perhaps, less than ideal. 

Although the developers of GnuCash dislike it, I wonder whether it would be possible to have a user-visible setting for the currency lookups, placed on the settings page with the AlphaVantage key. This would allow users an easy way to change this setting, and would also make it clearer to users that F::Q is retrieving currency info (which messages on this list have demonstrated that people don't realize).

Not a developer, not a programmer. 

⁣David T. ​

On Mar 31, 2024, 1:10 AM, at 1:10 AM, Bruce Schuck <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I'm getting ready to release Finance::Quote v1.60 to CPAN. It appears 
>that AlphaVantage has again changed how they deal with throttling for 
>requests using the free API keys/tokens. This has affected some users 
>that may have data that requires doing more than a handful of currency 
>exchange calculations.
>
>While the currency module used can be changed using the FQ_CURRENCY 
>environment variable, I have been asked to change the default to 
>YahooJSON instead of AlphaVantage.
>
>Before I make such a change I wanted to get a general consensus from
>the 
>GnuCash users.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Bruce S.
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