2000-04-06 Paul Fenwick * CVSTAG: finance_quote_0_16 * Initial public release. 2000-04-08 Paul Fenwick * Integrated TIAA-CREF changes from Brent Neal. * Changes to Makefile.PL to check dependancies, etc. * Updated Examples/Quote_example.pl to include TIAA-CREF examples. * CVSTAG: finance_quote_0_17 2000-04-10 Paul Fenwick * Changed Examples/chkshares.pl to print a pretty table. * Incorporated Cooper Vertz's patch to add high, low and net change to quotes obtained from Yahoo! 2000-04-13 Paul Fenwick * Fidelity private functions renamed to indicate they are private. * Small optimisations in fidelity functions to avoid spurious warnings and un-needed processing of non-useful lines. * Functions now quickly return undef when not passed a list of stocks. Previously they would waste time looking up nothing. * Documentation additions and corrections. * Added test files (Use.t, asx.t, yahoo.t, fidelity.t) * Added experimental function (currency) to look-up conversion rates between currencies. * Added an example script (currency-lookup.pl) to test said currency conversion. 2000-04-14 Paul Fenwick * Added TIAA-CREF testing script. * Added troweprice testing script. 2000-04-16 Paul Fenwick * Added yahoo_europe test script. * Removed depreciated vanguard function. 2000-04-18 Paul Fenwick * Added fetch() function to provide a cleaner interface to fetching quotes from a variety of sources. * Added tests for fetch() to the asx.t test script. 2000-04-20 Paul Fenwick * Removed misleading comments from Finance::Quote.pm 2000-04-21 Paul Fenwick * Added extra methods to fetch (nasdaq, nyse) which act as aliases to yahoo. * Added stockdump.pl example script, which is handy in debugging. * fetch is now an exportable function. * yahoo() function no longer returns entries for fields that used to be returned as 'N/A'. * yahoo() now supports the $stocks{$sym,'success'} notation. 2000-04-21 Brent Neal * Added checking for bogus symbols in tiaacref * Added checking of the LWP::UserAgent->is_success method * tiaacref() now supports $stocks{$sym,'success'} notation. * Updated t/tiaacref.t and Examples/Quote_example.pl for the changes 2000-04-23 Paul Fenwick * Added success/fail tests to asx, fidelity, troweprice, yahoo and yahoo_europe. * Updated appropriate testing functions. * Updated documentation to include fetch and list of known bugs. * Updated yahoo_europe to return undef's instead of N/As. * Removed HTML from returns from yahoo_europe. * Fixed logic bug in process yahoo_* N/As into undefs. 2000-04-24 Paul Fenwick * Updated in-line code regarding checking for Yahoo! successes. * Added meaningful error-messages to Yahoo! when stock lookups fail. 2000-04-24 Brent Neal * Finished updating error-checking for tiaacref. The tiaacref function now returns a success/failure flag for every symbol passed to it. It also checks that the data is valid. Returns meaningful error messages for these failures. 2000-04-25 Paul Fenwick * Rolled changes together when CVS got a little out-of-whack. :) * Return many new fields from yahoo() which we previously fetched but did not use. These include avg_vol, day_range, year_range, div_date, div, and div_yield. * Fixed typo in docs s/yeild/yield/; * Added ex_div for Ex-Divident Date in yahoo(). 2000-04-30 Paul Fenwick * Updated POD. * Improved returned error messages. * Updated the README file. * Updated the INSTALL file. * Tagged files as finance_quote_0_18 for release. 2000-05-13 Paul Fenwick * Added Documentation/FAQ file. 2000-05-14 Paul Fenwick * Huge re-write and change of everything so that it should be easy to plug in new modules without changing any existing code. 2000-05-27 Paul Fenwick * Added Documentation/Hackers-Guide. * Tweaked Quote.pm to provide an AUTOLOAD method for those people who don't want to go through the fetch() methods. 2000-05-31 Paul Fenwick * Added Documentation/TODO. 2000-06-03 Paul Fenwick * Revived dead vanguard method by rolling it through Yahoo. * Added labels method to everything. * Added price labels to everything. * Updated Quote.pm to query new labels methods. * Provided a failover method for fidelity via Yahoo. * Added failover functionality. 2000-06-03 Jacinta Richardson * Changed modules so they return undef in scalar context, empty list in list context, on failure. * Changed modules so they return a hashref when in scalar context, and a hash in list context. * Reviewed/corrected hackers guide. * Added currency tags to existing modules to signal currency type (AUD, EUR, USD) * Added tests to check currency tags. 2000-06-16 Paul Fenwick * Added webpage to CVS repository. 2000-06-17 Paul Fenwick * Re-added currency lookups to Quote.pm * Added regression testing script for currency. * Added automatic currency conversion stub. * Removed TODO file as we now keep track of outstanding jobs in SourceForge. 2000-06-21 Paul Fenwick * Rolled all the Yahoo functions into a base pseudo-class. * Fixed bug whereby large lookups in the yahoo functions would overflow the maximum URL length of some proxies/servers. * Expanded the number of fields available via Yahoo::Europe. 2000-06-22 Paul Fenwick * Added sections on currency conversion to the hacker's guide. Now I just need to write the code. :) # Added currency conversion code, but haven't tested it yet. 2000-06-23 Paul Fenwick * Cleaned up the hacker's guide. * Updated Examples/stockdump.pl to allow currency to be specified. * Automatic currency conversion now works. * Updated ASX and Yahoo::USA to not tag indexes with currency labels. * Updated Yahoo::Base to automatically accomodate suffixes for when we wish to add them automatically. * Added Yahoo::Australia to look up Australian stocks. * Tested failover of Yahoo::Australia to Yahoo::ASX. 2000-06-24 Paul Fenwick * Updated currency regression testing script. * Updated currency fetching routines to handle different date formats returned by Yahoo! * Updated automatic currency conversion routines to avoid spurious warnings. 2000-06-25 Paul Fenwick * Documented many of the new 0.19 functions in the Finance::Quote POD. 2000-07-02 Paul Fenwick * Many more documentation improvements in both the Finance::Quote POD and the sub-modules. 2000-07-08 Paul Fenwick * Added POD for TIAA-CREF and T. Rowe Price sub-modules. 2000-07-13 Paul Fenwick * Improved fidelity module such that it doesn't return information about stocks we did not request. 2000-07-15 Paul Fenwick * Wrote documentation for Yahoo::Europe (incomplete) and Yahoo::USA. Changed modules to require perl 5.005 because we make use of some of its features (like hash slices). * Improved labels documentation in Finance::Quote. * Added exchange and method information (where possible) to the various sub-modules. * Improved chkshares example script to check for errors. * Removed bad test in currency.t and replaced it with a better one. 2000-07-16 Paul Fenwick * Documented the list of possible markets in Yahoo::Europe. * Many many small syntax fixes in documentation. * Expanded and improved webpage. * Updated revision to 1.00 * Updated INSTALL documentation. * CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_00 2000-07-25 Paul Fenwick * Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Base now removes more HTML-ish guff that Yahoo tries to place in CSVs. * Updated yahoo_europe.t to check that stocks from London are in GBP. * Finance::Quote::Yahoo::Europe now returns London stocks in GBP. Previously it was incorrectly returning them in pence and calling it Euros. * Finance::Quote has a new scale_field() function that is used in currency conversion and by some sub-modules (Yahoo::Europe). This may be useful for future module writers. * CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_01 2000-07-31 Paul Fenwick * The currency function no longer makes an expensive HTTP request if both the to and from currencies are identical. 2000-08-04 Paul Fenwick * Patched Yahoo::Base to no longer return spurious percentage signs. 2000-08-06 Paul Fenwick * Updated regression testing scripts to make sure that spurious percentage signs are no longer returned. 2000-08-14 Paul Fenwick * Updated chkshares script so that it can deal with any market, not just the ASX. 2000-08-16 Paul Fenwick * Added DWS.pm module to the CVS repository, courtesy of Volker Stuerzl. This module fetches information from the Deutsche Bank Gruppe. * Updated asx.t script because it really hurts the entire "make test" thing when ASX is unhappy. Now it still hurts (because the ASX module sucks), but less. 2000-08-21 Paul Fenwick * Improved documentation in the yahoo_europe test script. 2000-08-22 Volker Stuerzl * Added DWS test script. 2000-08-29 Paul Fenwick * Rejiggered ASX module to try and make it work again after an ASX site rewrite. * Updated Quote.pm so that if a method was called directly (old-style) not through fetch, then it would do the right thing if called via an object. This means that things like $q->asx(@stocks) work correctly again. * Updated fetch() method so that it returns the empty list rather than undef when called in an array context. * fetch() now returns a hashref if called in a scalar context. 2000-08-31 Paul Fenwick * Added Keith Refson's Trustnet module. * Added .cvsignore file to reduce spam for developers using CVS. * Updated Yahoo/USA.pm to provide more compatible returns when called as a fidelity failover. * Tweaked DWS.t testing script so that it loads the module correctly. 2000-09-01 Paul Fenwick * Tweaked ASX.pm to avoid divide-by-zero errors and dodgy bogus-looking label values. 2000-09-04 Paul Fenwick * Keith Refson's patch to Trustnet to avoid premature returns in case of a bad symbol. 2000-09-12 Paul Fenwick * Mention of Bill Bell's java library in the FAQ. 2000-09-16 Paul Fenwick * Added Volker's VWD module and testing script. * Updated Makefile to check for HTML::TableExtract. * Updated INSTALL file to provide infomation on how to install modules that F::Q depends upon. * Updated Quote.pm to load VWD, DWS and Trustnet by default. * Updated README file to mention the webpage. * Added Trustnet regression testing program. * CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_02 2000-09-27 Paul Fenwick * Updated Trustnet module with patch from Keith Refson. 2000-10-20 Paul Fenwick * Much better discovery of non-existant stocks in ASX.pm. * Checks for possible divide-by-zero problems in ASX.pm. Thanks to Stephen Stebbing for catching this. * Updated ASX testing. * Updated all test scripts to remove spurious warnings under Perl 5.6. * Updated ASX module to deal with stocks when they have market announcements. Previously this would result in garbage being returned for that stock. * Updated VWD module so it can parse information from the new VWD site. * Updated F::Q version to 1.03. * CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_03 2000-10-27 Paul Fenwick * Updated yahoo_europe test suite as one of the symbols we were using for testing has since dissapeared. (Bankrupt? Merged?) 2000-10-29 Paul Fenwick * F::Q now makes use of a custom F::Q::UserAgent to fetch information. This is capable of doing proxy authentication and other arbitary http-headers. 2000-11-05 Paul Fenwick * BUG 121557: Fixed bug where the 40th symbol in a Yahoo lookup would fail. * F::Q::UserAgent is now ready for release, but is still considered experimental. Users must explicitly turn it on by setting $Finance::Quote::USE_EXPERIMENTAL_UA = 1; * Updated the FAQ. * Added MANIFEST file. * CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_04 2000-11-21 Paul Fenwick * Extra code to ensure that currency-fields returned by a Quotelet are unique. This prevents the potential bug of a field undergoing currency conversion multiple times and hence being quite off-track. 2000-11-29 Paul Fenwick * Updated the URL we obtain currency information to http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/m5?" * Updated docs in Yahoo/Europe.pm to note the Xtera exchange moving from FX to DE. * Thanks to Jan Willamowius for the above two changes. 2001-12-05 Paul Fenwick * Updated the Yahoo::USA source to finance.yahoo.com as the quote.yahoo.com may become depreciated in the future. Thanks to Iain Lea for spotting this. 2001-01-22 Paul Fenwick * Updated to respect the FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET environment variable to auto-load custom Quotelet. 2001-02-16 Paul Fenwick * Updated to repsect formatting changes in data fed to the currency function. * Updated Quote.pm to include updated information on FQ_LOAD_QUOTELET * CVSTAG: finance_quote_1_05 2001-04-05 Paul Fenwick * Updated ASX.pm module to reflect changed location of information on the ASX's website. (Still doesn't help when the ASX site is totally broken, as is too often the case.) * Updated Trustnet.pm module to reflect changes to the Trustnet site. 2001-05-08 Paul Fenwick * Applied Leigh Wedding's patch to ASX.pm, after ASX changed their website yet again! All is working happily once more. Thanks Leigh. * Added Tobias Vancura's F::Q::Fool module. * Added Fool as a automatically loaded loaded module from F::Quote.pm. 2001-05-09 Paul Fenwick * Fixed strange behaviour which could occur when using FQ_LOAD_QUOTELETS environment variable. This now works as intened. * Added Jasmin Bertovic's Cdnfundlibrary module. 2001-05-10 Volker Stuerzl * Updated VWD.pm to account for changes in VWD website. 2001-05-11 Paul Fenwick * Tweaked VWD.pm to strip whitespace from currency and remove asterisks from names. 2001-06-04 Brent Neal * Fixed Tiaacref.pm to reflect new CGIs at www.tiaa-cref.org New symbols available for the module - check the POD documentation for more info. 2001-06-25 Linas Vepstas * Added Tdwaterhouse module from James A. Treacy. 2001-06-26 Paul Fenwick * Added AEX module courtesy of Rob Sessink. * Updated ASX module to use the new (again!) ASX website. * Updated ASX module to use HTML::TableExtract. Code is much simplier now. * Updated Fidelity module to make use of the new fidelity website. * Updated the Fidelity test to always test the fidelity_direct method. * Bumped version number on F::Q to 1.06. * Updated Trustnet module to assume GBP if no currency explicitly shown. * Updated Trustnet test because one of the funds we were looking for had changed its name, causing the test to fail. * Added AEX test suite to repository. * Removed failover into Fool.pm support, as I'd like to do more testing before it enters the failover system. * Updated the FAQ. * Updated the INSTALL file. * Moved regression tests from /t to /test. Updated MANIFEST file accordingly. This means that autoamtic installs from CPAN won't run the regression tests, which was causing installation to fail on some systems. * Updated lists of copyright holders, SEE ALSO sections in man-pages.