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

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

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Is there a volunteer who would like to help creating a package for
constants.el?
I don't have experience creating packages....

- Carsten

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 8:49 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> I also see no reason why this package would not be accepted - it is a
> useful package, especially when it can be installed without efforts.
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
> Org mode contributor,
> Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
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