Out of curiosity, and for the record, did CSA respond to your inquiry? If no one is using it there is no reason to support it, but I am curious if the new/merged company is supporting their legacy products.
EBo -- On Dec 8 2015 5:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > So far no one has requested to continue suppport for the CSA importer > which means I have created a pull request where I removed the > importer. See: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/485 > > > Regards, Tobias > > > > > > > Von: Tobias Boceck > Gesendet: Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 21:56 > An: [email protected] > > > > > > In the introduction of the wikipedia article of “CSA (database > company)” it says these companies have indeed merged and therefore > you > might be right. Maybe they still have to figure out some things. I > sent an email asking if there is an export option for the csa format > (and I’m just blind..) or if they are planing on adding one in the > future. > > Regards, > Tobias > >> On 01 Dec 2015, at 20:55, EBo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Tobias, >> >> Before pulling support for CSA, contact proquest.com and see if they >> have any plans to support the export of CSA. It is possible that >> they >> bought or somehow took over the Cambridge Science Abstracts and they >> might not have everything online. If they get queries/requests for >> the >> type they might just add/keep the support. On the other hand, it >> would >> be nice to know how many people are using it so that you know if it >> is >> even worth the effort... >> >> EBo -- >> >> ps: I do not use CSA, but I have run into similar problems in the >> past... >> >> On Dec 1 2015 12:31 PM, Tobias Boceck wrote: >>> Dear Jabref Users, >>> >>> this is an important information for everyone who is or has been >>> using the CSA: Cambridge Science Abstracts or the ASAF: Aquatic >>> Sciences and Fisheries format. >>> >>> While creating unit tests for the CSA (Cambridge Science Abstract) >>> importer (CsaImporter.java), I could not find the website for the >>> CSA >>> format, mentioned in the code comments. It seems that the CSA >>> website >>> (csa.com) has gone offline and has been transfered to a new site >>> called proquest.com. Unfortunetely I could not find any exporting >>> option on proquest.com matching the CSA format. Searching for the >>> ASAF >>> format also refered to the proquest website which also does not >>> have >>> a >>> explicit ASAF export option. >>> >>> Therefore it seems to me that there is no point in keeping an >>> importer for a format which refers to a specific website which is >>> not >>> available anymore. However if you do use the CSA format and know a >>> different source on where to obtain a file with such format, I >>> would >>> kindly ask you to respond to this email prior to next weeks Tuesday >>> the 8th of December 2015. If there is no answer before the 8th of >>> December 2015 I will open a pull request to remove the importer. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Tobias Boceck >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK >>> Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. >>> Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. >>> Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for >>> multiple OSs. >>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jabref-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK >> Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. >> Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. >> Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for >> multiple OSs. >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 >> _______________________________________________ >> Jabref-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK > Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. > Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. > Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for > multiple OSs. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 > > _______________________________________________ > Jabref-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jabref-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. 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