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From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: constants update
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prw9kg8c.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1eaaa6d50801100216u1a204034k13699eb4d4b430af@mail.gmail.com>

At Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:16:24 +0100,
Oliver Jennrich wrote:
> 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?

In the end I decided that since these header files don't have any
dependencies, it's simpler to let people keep a specific version in
their own program if they really need it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-09 17:07 Richard Mathar
2008-01-10  9:02 ` Jochen Küpper
2008-01-10  9:23   ` Jochen Küpper
2008-01-10 10:19     ` Oliver Jennrich
2008-01-10 11:21       ` Jochen Küpper
2008-01-10 12:39       ` Brian Gough [this message]
2008-01-10 22:22     ` Brian Gough
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-06 23:15 Jochen Küpper
2008-01-08 18:42 ` Brian Gough

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