Re: xlsx2csv package may not be required.

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

On 2023-03-22 13:13, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-03-22 01:14, Jari Aalto via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > On 2023-03-18 17:56, marco atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > > 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)
> > 
> > I agree, it's better to have native Python package which is more
> > likely to be kept up to date by the upstream.
> > 
> > So, anyopne packaging the Python PIP version, please go ahead and
> > remove the current package.
> 
> Hi Jari,
> 
> So no issue if I adopt and package with cygport?
> It's a utility I use around tax time and sometimes elsewhen.

If you go ahead and take maintenance of the Pyhon PIP version of
xlsx2csv, I think we can retire the current xlsx2csv package as it is
not particularly active in git:

https://github.com/dilshod/xlsx2csv.git

2023-03-13 78be285 tdilshod Merge pull request #248 from NoSuck/hyperlinks-crash-string-bytes
2023-03-13 140e4cf tdilshod Merge pull request #252 from hugovk/replace-deprecated-BadZipfile
2023-01-09 3180d94 tdilshod version 0.8.1 (tag: 0.8.1)
2022-12-23 9b6c2df tdilshod include hidden rows option
2022-10-02 4beb5a8 tdilshod fix python2 support

Jari