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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:45:02 +0000 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neil Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:36:28 +0000 > > > > It is convenient to download a pre-built .deb but it is not only > > insecure, it is a positive hindrance to normal upgrade behaviour > > across the rest of the distribution. > > Although very handy for testing if you have a suitable machine around! or a chroot - but then creating chroots isn't something most users do routinely, especially getting chroot packages to then use Xorg. > The source tarball setup file is a ruby file that tries to install > grism to /usr/bin, so unless you know Ruby, I'd skip trying to run it > from source. Naughty. > On a vanilla Debian Lenny install it installs a menu option under > "Office". It starts and stops as you'd expect. I added Share to > Watch, I added share to portfolios, it calculated profit/loss. > > Best I could say is it shows promise. > > It crashed trying to chart a year of IBM stock. :-( > Because it is always retrieving stuff from Yahoo it is surprisingly > slow (it should pre-empt my needs more probably and get rid of the > round trip delays). > > It doesn't support alerts or other features common to Yahoo! Finance, > Google finance. > > So probably not the tool John was looking for. Although any Ruby > programmers might think "I can fix it". Doesn't sound like it's ready for Debian at the moment either. It would need a Ruby developer already working with the Debian Ruby team to get it into some sort of decent shape. Just because software is free doesn't mean it's any good - there can be other reasons why package foo isn't in Debian or Ubuntu apart from a lack of time by interested maintainers, the package may just be crud. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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