On 2021-06-14 11:58, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote:
Hello Jim,
I fear this changes would go in the wrong direction. It would hide the
important "normal" stuff behind a bunch of noise.
Instead of adding aphavantage and probably other keys to each command,
explain for your OSes, how to add them to the environment on each login.
IIRC future FQ release will handle it different.
I fear that I did a terrible job of explaining what change I propose to
the Online quotes wiki page. You are the second person who got the
impression that I want to add lots of Alphavantage keys and paths to
each command. I'm sorry if my wording gave that impression. I certainly
do not propose that.
I propose to change every invocation on that page from a bare name of
the helper script, e.g.
gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR
by adding just "perl" in front. Something like
perl gnc-fq-dump currency USD EUR
Instead of adding -{w|W} to each command, explain them in the
troubleshooting section and perhaps how to add them to perls configuration.
This is a good point. I read about the -w option to perl. While GnuCash
appears to use it when calling gnc-fc-helper, I agree that we don't need
it in each example on the page. Drop it.
The gnc-fq-* scripts have a shebang and Windows it the only OS without
the mechanism.
The main purpose ofthe helper scripts is not to mimic GnuCash's call but
to find out why it is not working as expected.
I agree. But I now understand that for some users, including me,
invoking the gnc-fq-* scripts as commands and relying on the shebang,
leads to different results than invoking "perl gnc-fq-dump" etc.
Teaching the user to rely on the shebang can make it _harder_ to find
out why online quotes are not working as expected. Teaching the user
"perl gnc-fq-dump" is still simple, but avoids that problem.
Thank you for your comments.
—Jim DeLaHunt
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