[Kde-finance-apps] Re: [Kmymoney2-developer] Feature request

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Thursday 06 January 2011 09:37:26 James Zhixin Zhang wrote:

> To Whom It May Concern:
> 
> I have been using KMyMoney for a few months and find it particularly
>  powerful. Based on my current experience, I would like to suggest separate
>  storage of investment market data and book data. I maintain 4 investment
>  accounts in KMyMoney with several stocks/mutual funds. I also have foreign
>  currency income/spending/investment. As I update stock prices and exchange
>  rates on daily basis, the kmy file becomes larger and larger which makes
>  loading time slower and slower. Since historical market data is only
>  useful when reviewing report, I would like to suggest storage of only
>  current market data in kmy file and the historical market data can be
>  stored in another file for example. Thank you for your efforts in
>  developing and maintaining such a great program.

This would be something we see in a project called Alkimia (which we are part 
of). See 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Alkimia/Usecases#Central_Stock_Price_Information 
for details (OK, not much right now). Alkimia as a provider of such 
information should also store it somewhere.


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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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