Re: [OctDev] no more combinatorics and physical-constants package

[Carnë D. <car...@gm...>]

On 17 October 2012 09:23, c. <car...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 16 Oct 2012, at 02:21, Carnë Draug wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I have removed the combinatorics and physical-constants packages.
>>
>> They had been moved into the miscellaneous package some months ago and
>> since a new release of it was made, I have also released these two as
>> well. They are empty packages, only have a dummy file and are
>> dependent on the new version of miscellaneous just to ease transition.
>>
>> Carnë
>>
>
> Carnë,
>
> I do agree with the move of physical_constant into the miscellaneous package
> as it reduces the total number of packages.
> Was it really necessary, though, to change the names of all the constants?
> This breaks all existing code using "physical_constant" (and I have a lot of that around),
> would you mind if check-in a patch to allow using both the new and the old format for the names?
> It would also have been nice if this change was mentioned somewhere, for example in the "news".

Sorry, I forgot to mention this on the file. The reason for the name
change was that the previous code actually had a bug and when there
was more than one constant (for different temperature or pressure
conditions), only the last on the list would be used. If you commit a
change, do it on the python script that generates the whole function
file.

Carnë