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Hello,
I'm using chrons library in one of my projects and it looks like your latest commit causes rebar2 get-deps to fail with the following error.

Pulling chronos from {git,"https://github.com/lehoff/chronos.git",
                          {branch,"master"}}
Cloning into 'chronos'...
WARN:  Directory expected to be an app dir, but no app file found
in ebin/ or src/:
/Users/user/project/deps/chronos
ERROR: Dependency dir /Users/user/project/deps/chronos failed application validation with reason:
{missing_app_file,"/Users/user/project/deps/chronos"}.
ERROR: 'get-deps' failed while processing /Users/user/project: rebar_abort

If you want to have a recurring timer, say every 5 seconds, you have to start a new timer every time it expires.

If this is too troublesome to do it will be possible to introduce recurring timers - I encourage users of Chronos to try it out as it is today and provide me with some information about how recurring timers should work for them. Then I will implement the feature.

Timer module for Erlang that makes it easy to abstact [sic] time out of the tests.

(I can't make a PR for this)

Right now a Chronos timer server can only be started with start_link/1 which means that it will die when the creator of it dies.

It might be a good thing to decouple this, but since I have not found a good use case for this yet it is not implemented.

It will be great if chronos moves to rebar as build tool, since using erlang.mk has some issues when compiling mixed packages which uses the REBAR_DEPS_DIR env variable.

I'm not an erlang expert (just learing elixir now), otherwise will be more than happy to submit a PR for that.

(for reference: https://elixirforum.com/t/help-with-erlang-module-not-available-when-testing-in-travis/2338/10 )

When the requester of a timer dies it should be possible to get the timers that has been requested removed.

This is only a problem if more processes share the same Chronos timer server, since a single process which has started a Chronos timer server will drag Chronos down with it when it dies