Re: very small packages - merge into general/miscelleneous or move into core

[c.]

On 17 Jan 2014, at 13:55, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:

> The physical constants package was unmaintained and out of date using
> the constants as defined in 2002. The script to fetch the up to date
> constant values had stopped working because the website had change the
> format of the table. Hopefully that would not happen again, but hey!
> It shouldn't have happened in the first place anyway and it did.


Honestly, it does not happen often that universal physical 
constants change their values. 

It happens once every couple of decades that a new, more 
accurate, measurement method is invented and the "official"
value of the physical constant is changed, but that is a rare
event.

I'd be satisfied with making the file "physical_constants.m"
static with a comment stating when the values were retrieved,
rather than generated via a script, and to update it manually
if and when someone reports a significant change in the database.

c.