Re: Feasibility of system() plugin?

[Jon Dyte <jon totient demon co uk>]

Hi

I experimented with the python plugin using CORBA to call out
to a server to fetch some calculations. You could code up yr own
server to fetch the prices and handle some security issues. 
This has worked ok for me, but for a simple protocol xml-rpc (as zbigniew notes) is probably easier.

The other problem I had was that the python plugin doesnt support all
the gnumeric api, and I wanted to do plugin code which took say
a range as an argument and populated every cell in the range with
values(rather than have a call in every sheet cell in the range). 
Last time I looked this wasnt there, and I havent had much
time to see what's needed to do this.

If yahoo provides the prices you want, over xml-rpc, then that would
be the easiest route right now, using the python plugin.

Jon