Re: xlsx2csv package may not be required.

[marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 10:29 AM Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin-apps
<cygwin-apps@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 07:58:48PM -0600, Doug Henderson via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > There is a current pure python version of xlsx2csv which runs for many
> > versions of Python 2 and Python 3.
> >
> > It may not be necessary to provide a package for it in cygwin.
> > Instead, users may install the pure python package from PYPI
> > https://pypi.org/ using pip or another python package manager.
>
> Installing using pip or similar is an option for the vast majority of
> packages that are available through the Cygwin installer; by that logic
> it wouldn't make sense to provide most of the Python packages we
> provide.  Which wouldn't be an invalid strategy, but it would be a very
> big change in how we handle things!
>
> I think the advantage of using the Cygwin packages is a better
> likelihood of packages actually being compatible with Cygwin, rather
> than having some weird and unpredictable package dependency issue.  A
> pure Python xlsx2csv is very unlikely to be affected by that sort of
> issue, but providing it as a Cygwin package means users shouldn't need
> to even think about whether the package is a pure Python package or not.


I agree with Adam.
I would have no problem to release the python package no if not for
the problem to the laptop

I guess one month from now I will be able to be operative again
(assuming the target supplier of the laptop https://frame.work/ will
not have delivery problem)

Regards
Marco