On 21/01/2019 20:10, Derek Atkins wrote:
Wm via gnucash-devel <[email protected]> writes:
[snip]
Wm's suggestion
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only collect if the most recent price is more than 1 day (or 12 hours,
etc) old [2]. this sort of fits in with the existing post collection
[snip]
Do you really miss the point on purposes? If gnc collects the last
price it doesn't have that is a good thing.
All GnuCash knows is the time of the last price it received/stored.
Yup, it also can't know the significance of one price vs another for the
user. If you're suggesting a price priority option I'm not against that
but I don't think it solves the problem you don't perceive. It would be
a lot of work UI wise and I'm pretty sure as soon as it appeared someone
would strongly object.
It
has to make the request to A-V to know if there is a new price.
There is always a new price in modern markets. That doesn't mean gnc
should be requesting a price every second or millisecond. The db design
simply doesn't support that sort of trading. There is other software
for that.
So that
means, by definition, GnuCash will automatically request any prices >
<Delta> old, whether or not there is a "new price", because GnuCash
can't know if there is a new price until it makes the request.
gnc can be a good citizen and not ask for a price it already has. I am
suggesting it asks for prices it doesn't have first. Why is this
suggestion so troubling to you?
Sure, this is a "Good Thing", but it's definitely not going to limit the
number of price requests GnuCash makes.... Unless, of course, you're
assuming people are requesting prices every few minutes?
this has been done repeatedly in the user list, people *are* trying to
use gnc for intra day trading and generally find it doesn't work.
I may be misreading you, Derek
It is possible you are playing devil's advocate
It appears to me you are against gnc (or possibly F::Q) backing off and
being a good citizen or doing a good thing.
--
Wm
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