Why create a new, renamed xsv fork? #287
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xsv has proven to be an indispensable part of our data integration work. We've used it in several projects, large and small, and it has made data-wrangling much easier. We've used a bevy of tools before, both open-source and commercial (mainly OpenRefine, Trifacta née Data Wrangler, a library of python scripts using pandas, we even sponsored an open source project), and there was nothing that approached the speed and convenience of xsv.
Early 2021, there were several pending PRs we were interested in and features we wanted to contribute ourselves.
As it happens, there was a maintainership discussion on GitHub at the time, where @BurntSushi - xsv's creator (of ripgrep fame and prolific Rust contributor), suggested that "if folks want to carry on in a fork, that might be the best path forward. I might request giving the project a different name though, because I do at least intend to at some point breath life back into xsv."
And that's how qsv came to be. Itch scratched.
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