_Finance::Quote Release 1.17_
Last modified on : 5.10.2009
Today Finance: :Quote hit CPAN.You can find it here.
This version should enable GnuCash users to get quotes from websites again. Other work went to integrating HU.pm (Hungarian stocks) and bug fixes due to website modifications.
Finance::Quote is known to work nicely with Finance::QuoteDB for keeping your quotes easily in a database. Finance::QuoteDB uses DBIx::Class and therefor it is database independent. A frontend script (fqdb) is available if you just want to start downloading stocks to a personal database. Historical quotes are also available through the use of Finance::QuoteHist which is also supported in Finance::QuoteDB. An interface to GeniusTrader is also available.
Futur work goes to the porting of GeniusTrader to CPAN. A alpha version has already been posted to CPAN but non-developpers should stick to the current stable release of GeniusTrader
_Working on Finance::Quote_
Last modified on : 30.09.2009
I'm back to work on the next Finance::Quote release. Maintaining a module like F::Q seems more time consuming than I originaly thought. Mainly due to modifications in websites which make submodules fail. This is somewhat a surprise to me as I didn't use all modules before taking over the maintenance. Also release 1.16 has seen some additional submodules come to life, which also need maintenance for the same reason. I know now that an important of maintenance time has to go to checking submodules and keeping them on track with their respective websites.
The next release adds another job to be done. I recently subscribed to the GnuCash mailing list. The GnuCash project uses F::Q for retrieving quotes (which certainly is a very good idea). It seems some GnuCash users have problems making F::Q work from GnuCash. So I'd like to do some work for these users also.
I certainly don't have to do all the development on my own. Thanks to other users/developers for sending patches!
That definitely makes me try to free more time for this module, but also keep on working on Finance::QuoteDB and Finance::GeniusTrader!
_Finance::Quote resurected ?_
Last modified on : 17.09.2008
It seems that the Finance: :Quote Perl module is getting a second life.Look at the discussion on the mailing list.
Hope to read you there !