From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Antoine =?utf-8?Q?Beaupr=C3=A9?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] import org2tc scripts from John Wiegly into org-mode Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:30:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87ziiisxit.fsf@curie.anarc.at> References: <20170120181806.7332-1-anarcat@debian.org> <87pojfb5l1.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVNqL-0005mo-6e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:30:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVNqI-00051L-2j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:30:25 -0500 Received: from marcos.anarc.at ([206.248.172.91]:52422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVNqH-000516-Gp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 14:30:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pojfb5l1.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Nicolas Goaziou Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2017-01-22 14:13:30, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Antoine Beaupr=C3=A9 writes: > >> this was taken from this Github repo with the author's approval: >> >> https://github.com/jwiegley/org2tc >> >> this is very useful to convert org-mode clock entries into the more >> easily parseable timeclock.el format, a fundamental step in automating >> billing with org-mode. > > Thank you. > > However, I don't see any particular reason to distribute it within Org > (or within "timeclock.el", for that matter). It can happily live on > github (or somewhere else), can't it? > > If it were written in Elisp, it could also go into GNU ELPA. The main reason for this is that it's just this one tiny little script. It seems silly to have a whole repo for it - and there are other such scripts in contrib/scripts already... I do not, unfortunately, have time to rewrite this in elisp just now. ;) A. --=20 People arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then they pretend that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful. - Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars