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.
