From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20657 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2008 10:19:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 20388 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2008 10:16:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <1eaaa6d50801100216u1a204034k13699eb4d4b430af@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:19:00 -0000 From: "Oliver Jennrich" To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jochen_K=FCpper?=" Subject: Re: constants update Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <8A45541B-99EC-4628-93B2-7D37095C59C9@fhi-berlin.mpg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200801091354.m09Dsgwj022136@amer.strw.leidenuniv.nl> <8A45541B-99EC-4628-93B2-7D37095C59C9@fhi-berlin.mpg.de> Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 On Jan 10, 2008 10:23 AM, Jochen K=FCpper wrote: > Brian, > > On 10.01.2008, at 10:01, Jochen K=FCpper wrote: > > > Therefore, someone needs to create a patch for calc-units- > > update.el, i.e., as the following: > > > here is a patch to upgrade some (very few!) constants to CODATA 2006. > Hopefully this can also serve someone else as a guide to update more > values in GSL. I'm wondering if updating the constants without a possibility to revert to an earlier version is a good idea. Would it be useful to have something like GSL_CONST_MKSA_SPEED_OF_LIGHT_2000 GSL_CONST_MKSA_SPEED_OF_LIGHT_2006 and GSL_CONST_MKSA_SPEED_OF_LIGHT to be either of the two, depending on a #define? > > > Greetings, > Jochen > -- > Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit http://www.Jochen- > Kuepper.de > Libert=E9, =C9galit=E9, Fraternit=E9 GnuPG key: CC1B0= B4D > Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll > > > > --=20 Space -- the final frontier