While this sounds like an interesting idea, it would add yet another dependency on Gnucash: PERL and Finance::Quote. I'm not sure that we want Gnucash to depend on those packages.
-derek Glen Ditchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For extra points, make the extension download the Finance::Quote module for > the price source. > > But are there any legal issues? If I store this information on my computer, > no one gives a hoot in practice. If you store it publically on > www.gnucash.org, you become a target for legal attack. There have been > lawsuits over things like catalog numbers in stamp catalogs. A financial web > site might consider their internal codes to be proprietary, and extracting > price information might violate terms of use. > > I also dislike the idea of putting arbitrary strings in the user interface. > Can we hide security codes, and make them a private matter between GnuCash > and Finance::Quote? Each Finance::Quote module already "knows" a bit about > security codes for its quote source. We would have to extend the modules so > that they know how to find the security code for a security or mutual fund. > The program flow would be something like > - the user selects quote source 'Wahoo' for the security named 'AGF Canadian > Aggressive'. > - GnuCash asks Finance::Quote::Wahoo for a list of securities and security > codes, passing 'AGF Canadian Aggressive' as a hint. > - Finance::Quote::Wahoo does its site-specific thing to build the list. > (Finance::Quote::Tdwaterhouse would download the comma-separate-values file > of all funds that it already uses. Finance::Quote::Yahoo would feed a search > term to http://finance.yahoo.com/l.) > - GnuCash would show the user the list. The user would pick one. > - GnuCash would squirrel the security code away. > > Finance::Quote modules should also have some way to pass a 'help' message > back to the user, to give hints about constructing security names. ("Go to > http://finance.yahoo.com/l, and try different search terms.") > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel