Replace frictionless with pandas#136
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Makes sense to me, thanks @davemfish ! Looks like there are a few ways we could potentially be detecting table dialects (e.g. csv.Sniffer), but pandas seems to have the easiest-to-use column type inference, and I fully agree that pandas is likely to already exist in the environments where geometamaker is likely to be installed.
Farewell, frictionless!
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Frictionless has proven to not be the right tool for the job, and not worth the weight of using it as a dependency. We can use
pandasinstead, which has proven to be a reliable package and is often used in the same contexts asgeometamakeranyway.In giving up
frictionlesswe give up its ability to detect the tabular schema of arbitrary files. So, we are now being more explicit about the tabular file formats that we support (csvandtsv). Essentially, any text file with a character delimiter can be supported. Pandas can auto-detect the dialect of the file (the separator and quote characters).Fixes #130