Thank you for your comments and encouragement, Chris!
On 2021-06-13 22:42, Chris Good wrote:
Thanks for contributing to the documentation!
I think:
perl -w gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR
is going to confuse non-technical people just as much.
And using
/Path/To/Perl/perl -w /Path/To/HelperScripts/gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR
for every example is unnecessarily complicated.
Oh, I certainly don't advocate using the complex form for every example.
It just needs to be explained once, so that people can figure out how to
convert the simpler form, in the examples, to the full form which
actually works.
And in any case, "/Path/To/Perl/perl" is against the thrust of this
discussion. GnuCash seems to use "perl" without a path, and I think so
should the examples.
I suggest you just add a section at the start of
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=Online_Quotes#Helper_Scripts
that gives explicit instructions and examples for Linux and macOS like it
current does for
Windows.
Or maybe the later examples should all be stated to be for Linux and have
specific instructions for Windows and macOS at the start of
Helper_Scripts...
I'm pretty sure prefixing commands with the setting of environment variables
(e.g. XYZ=abc command) does not work in Windows.
Interesting. How does one do "gnc-fq-dump currency" on Windows? How does
one provide the AlphaVantage key?
Running the helper scripts
I'm open to any better suggestions.
My first step is taking an overall look at the wiki page
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes to see how best to work with
what is there.
Best regards,
—Jim DeLaHunt
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