>>>>> Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> writes:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@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.
