[GNC] Finance::Quote PreRelease 1.61_03

[Bruce Schuck]

On 5/3/24 9:58 AM, John Ralls wrote:

> It’s normal for Linux distros to package perl modules. Fedora’s is 
> https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/perl-Finance-Quote/perl-Finance-Quote/
> <https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/perl-Finance-Quote/perl-Finance-Quote/>.
> Note that there are back ports of 1.61 for Fedoras 38, 39, and 40.

John,

I am well aware of that. In this message yesterday 
(https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2024-May/111771.html) 
I suggested that Fred install perl-CPAN and also maybe perl-App-cpanminus.

What threw me is one of Fred's earlier comments where he stated
something like "I am now able to get quotes *again*". "Again" being the
operative word, as it sounded like he would have already had F::Q
installed, which typically means CPAN and/or CPAN Minus is already
installed. Or maybe I got mixed up with another response from someone else.

> Debian/Ubuntu also package F::Q 
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libfinance-quote-perl 
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libfinance-quote-perl>
> but are nowhere near as conscientious about keeping up with your
> releases so patience won’t work for their users. Keeping out of the
> way of the package manager is still a good practice so I think their
> users should also point cpan at a user-space directory.

Again, not new to me. My primary desktop at home has been an Ubuntu LTS 
release since 12.04LTS. I've been alternating between in place upgrades 
and doing a fresh install and restoring what I need from backups. And 
the fresh install path means I first have to install the Canonical CPAN 
and CPAN Minus before I install the modules I use regularly. At home I 
go back and forth WRT installing using sudo or using local::lib to 
install modules outside of the normal @INC path. On my work macbook, I 
install all extra modules in directories under $HOME.

I've been around Perl a *long* time. Hell, if you grab the Perl source 
code from Git, I'm in the list of authors...

You're across the bay, one of these days we should meet up for a beer.

Regards,

Bruce S.