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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2023 07:09:14 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Fernando Apestegu??a <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 38be56a530a0 - main - textproc/p5-excel2csv: new port had been added (+)
Message-ID:  <ZNSNGjDjZZH48Juu@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGwOe2YTNpBO-aO5dCxKnHzy%2Bg=7D3n7JSQ9HD4vYKfYGuUZrA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 08:53:19AM +0200, Fernando Apestegu??a wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 8:20???AM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > commit 38be56a530a004de92b36d35bbd8e85cd9a0fd32
> >
> >   textproc/p5-excel2csv: new port had been added (+)
> >
> >   Provides two scripts for converting Microsoft Excel
> >   spreadsheet formats (both XLS and XLSX) to CSV.
> 
> This project has seen only 4 commits since 2014
> It's never had issues or pull request

This often is an indication of a good, finished program. :)

> This smells suspicious as in "nobody uses this software".

It could be valid observation, but then you should've asked Henrik
these questions, not closed PR as "fixed" when it's really not.

I've just used it to convert several *.xls and *.xlsx files created
with recent version of Excel and LibreOffice and it works fine, making
it useful at least for the original submitter and myself.

> The "parent" project in CPAN has only 3 issues. All of them unresolved
> for the last 7, 9 and 12 years

The author mentions that CPAN version is behind GitHub's in the README
and so does the port in the description.

./danfe



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