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
