Re: [PATCH] import org2tc scripts from John Wiegly into org-mode

["Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat@debian.org>]

On 2017-01-22 14:13:30, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> writes:
>
>> this was taken from this Github repo with the author's approval:
>>
>> https://github.com/jwiegley/org2tc
>>
>> this is very useful to convert org-mode clock entries into the more
>> easily parseable timeclock.el format, a fundamental step in automating
>> billing with org-mode.
>
> Thank you.
>
> However, I don't see any particular reason to distribute it within Org
> (or within "timeclock.el", for that matter). It can happily live on
> github (or somewhere else), can't it?
>
> If it were written in Elisp, it could also go into GNU ELPA.

The main reason for this is that it's just this one tiny little
script. It seems silly to have a whole repo for it - and there are other
such scripts in contrib/scripts already...

I do not, unfortunately, have time to rewrite this in elisp just now. ;)

A.

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