On 2021/10/29 13:19, Omar Polo wrote:
> "Allan Streib" <astreib@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
> > This is a little utility that I have found useful when processing CSV
> > files that may contain delimeters or newlines within data fields.
> >
> > https://github.com/dbro/csvquote
> >
> > The project provides no release/tags or man page.
>
> that's sad :/
>
> > I offer the attached port for comments/testing.
> >
> > I have tested only on amd64.
> >
> > Allan
>
> I'm attaching an improved version with:
>
> - changed the version from 1.0 to 0.0.20180328. This way, if upstream
> ever decides to tag a version less than 1.0 we won't have troubles.
>
> - HOMEPAGE is not needed, it already defaults to that value.
>
> - same for EXTRACT_SUFX and MASTER_SITES
>
> - missing license comment before PERMIT_PACKAGE
>
> - we can avoid patching the makefile by tweaking FAKE_FLAGS to override
> the makefile' BINDIR.
>
> - indentation
those are all ok with me
> - I don't think installing the project README is useful. The "know
> limitations" part is surely useful, but the rest of the readme not
> that much.
in the absence of a manual, i do think the readme is useful because
it describes what the tool does. i'm ok to import this with the readme
added back in.
> I don't mess with csv files often, but I see why something like this
> could be useful.
>
> btw, it could be possible (and quite easy really) to run cvsquote under
> pledge("stdio rpath", NULL). The code is simple to follow, is a simple
> filter after all :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Omar Polo
>
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