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
