Re: Should we move constants.el by Carsten Dominik to Org orphanage?

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

>>>>> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

    > Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
    >>>> Yes, this is stable, and I am still maintaining it.
    >>> 
    >>> Thanks for chiming in :) Have you considered publishing
    >>> constants.el as GNU/non-GNU ELPA package?
    >>> 
    >> 
    >> I have not yet considered that.  I think this package ha only few
    >> users.  Am I wrong about that?

    > Maybe, maybe not. But I think that it may be the chicken-and-egg
    > problem - constants.el may be not used because it is not available
    > in the package repositories.

    > I am asking mostly because Org mode declares support of
    > constants.el in the manual:

    >     ‘️constants.el’ by Carsten Dominik
    
    >          Org can use names for constants in formulas in tables.
    > Org can also use calculation suffixes for units, such as ‘️M’ for
    > ‘Mega’.  For a standard collection of such constants, install the
    > ‘️constants’ package.  Install version 2.0 of this package,
    > available at <https://github.com/cdominik/constants-for-Emacs>.
    > Org checks if the function ‘️constants-get’ has been autoloaded.
    > Installation instructions are in the file ‘️constants.el’.

    > ... and it would be nice to have it available via the usual M-x
    > package-install.

Wouldn't that be over-kill: it's only one lisp file. And an excellent
file it is, but I just have it in my lisp path. Anyway, I refuse to use
package repositories preferring to install things myself.

Best wishes,

Colin Baxter.