petl-developers/petl

Maintanability: Remove deprecated io classes

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juarezr commented

Context

  • After #494 landed in v1.6.0, petl started using fsspec for handling read and writing from/to remote servers and cloud filesystems.
  • Before there were some classes for dealing with compression and SMB.
  • But with fsspec they become duplicated code.
  • We have these choices for this code:
    • Remove it and require fsspec for this functionality
    • Make it private and use it as a fallback when one does not want to add a dependency to fsspec. So one need to make it clear in docs.