On Thu, 04 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>G'day everyone,
>
>On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:20:03PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
>[assorted snippage throughout]
>
>> > >> Unfortunately the funds from Union Investment www.union-investment.de
>> > >> are there also not available.
>> > >
>> > >try this site (sory it is in German):
>> > >
>> > >http://bbbank.teledata.de:9056/bbbank/Uebersicht.htm
>
>> gnc-prices doesn't actually fetch the data directly, that is done
>> by a perl module Quote.pm. This module has recently been broken
>> out into a separate project, located at
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4232
>
>Finance::Quote supports a variety of sources, the most useful being
>yahoo and yahoo_europe. While these provide access to a number of
>funds and mutual stocks, there are still a great deal that cannot
>be fetched through Yahoo!.
>
>There are plans to do a bit of a rewrite to Finance::Quote to allow
>more 'pluggable modules' types of methods. This hasn't started properly
>in earnest, but there has been some discussion. If you're interested
>in helping by writing a module, or want to supply a 'wish-list'
>to the developers, you're welcome to join the finance-quote-devel
>mailing list:
>
>http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/finance-quote-devel
>
>The page which Dave mentioned (http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=4232)
>also provides access to downloads, status reports, CVS access, and
>other useful facilities. Please feel free to make use of it.
>
>This also reminds me that I should consider rolling the 0.18 release
>of Finance::Quote back into GnuCash.
>
Paul,
thanks for these informations. I will have a look at your code,
maybe I am able to add something.
Reinhold
