From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fgw23-4.mail.saunalahti.fi (fgw23-4.mail.saunalahti.fi [62.142.5.110]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C09E13858D3C for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:14:38 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org C09E13858D3C Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cante.net Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cante.net Received: from congo.cante.net (81-197-199-99.elisa-laajakaista.fi [81.197.199.99]) by fgw23.mail.saunalahti.fi (Halon) with ESMTP id 33a2c724-c881-11ed-b972-005056bdfda7; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:14:36 +0200 (EET) Received: from jaalto by congo.cante.net with local (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1pesg7-001u0s-3D; Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:14:36 +0200 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:14:35 +0200 From: Jari Aalto To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Cc: Doug Henderson , Adam Dinwoodie Subject: Re: xlsx2csv package may not be required. Message-ID: References: <20230317092935.gnhy6het67peihf5@lucy.dinwoodie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_SHORT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_PDS_OTHER_BAD_TLD autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 2023-03-18 17:56, marco atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 10:29=E2=80=AFAM Adam Dinwoodie via Cygwin-apps > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 07:58:48PM -0600, Doug Henderson via Cygwin-app= s 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. >=20 >=20 > I agree with Adam. > I would have no problem to release the python package no if not for > the problem to the laptop >=20 > 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. Jari