On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Mike Alexander <[email protected]> writes: > >> --On February 28, 2012 3:43:22 AM -0800 Ian K <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Could someone explain how to apply these patches in Windows? I am >>> able to locate and view/edit quote.pm, but have no idea what to do >>> with these .diff files. Thanks! >>> >> >> If you don't have a patch program then you'll have to edit the >> relevant files and apply the patches by hand. Lines in the patch that >> start with "-" represent lines that should be deleted from the file. >> Lines starting with "+" should be added to the file. Lines starting >> with " " are for context and should not be changed in the file. The >> "+", "-", or " " are not part of the line and should not be entered >> into the file. Liberal use of copy and paste can make this a little >> less error prone. > > I wonder if we should just make the post-patched files available for > windows users? Or perhaps provide a patch to the "Install F::Q" menu > option?
F::Q hasn't published an update to CPAN since October 2009. Paul Fenwick has moved the repo to github [1], but hasn't pushed anything in a year. I propose that we fork Fenwick's repo to our Gnucash Github account, apply the outstanding patches, and adjust update-finance-quote to pull tarballs from there. Mike, you seem conversant with the F::Q code, are you up for maintaining the GC fork? As an aside, longer term it would be good to come up with a quote retrieval mechanism that doesn't pull in an extra scripting dependency and has something a bit more robust than screen scraping for data retrieval. Regards, John Ralls [1] https://github.com/pfenwick/finance-quote _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
