Official CSV file format change

Sambomb wrote:

I know its a huge step, but have you tought about change from CSV to a newer format like JSON?

CSV is easier to maintain than a JSON file when it comes to editing. It's easy to convert a CSV file to JSON if you really need one.

Sambomb wrote:

Maybe a API with:
Incremental version of each card ( so we can keep track of changes )
New texts since (date/time / Version code ) so when someone wants to update just bring the new cards
Related rullings so a database can keep track of what rulling affect each card
Translated texts: Someone can make a request to the API to bring the English/Portuguese/Spanish/French/etc version of the cards

With this in mind, many of the cards could start to be linked as a code so when someone needs to know the card in another language they can link it by the code, something like:
[100131] instead of Banishment so it can show for portuguese players as Banimento.

This is something else I'm already working on, but recreating the history of each card is a hassle, especially for cards predating the BCP era (even though some sites like vtes.pl do have that kind of information).

Also, I don't have the time to do everything by myself.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

A version with the new format is available here for testing: www.vekn.net/images/stories/downloads/vtescsv_utf8_new.zip

Changes:
1/ vtescrypt.csv
1.a/ the Discipline columns (Abombwe, Animalism, Auspex, Celerity, Chimerstry, Daimoinon, Dementation, Dominate, Fortitude, Melpominee, Mytherceria, Necromancy, Obeah, Obfuscate, Obtenebration, Potence, Presence, Protean, Quietus, Sanguinus, Serpentis, Spiritus, Temporis, Thanatosis, Thaumaturgy, Valeren, Vicissitude, Visceratika) have been deleted
1.b/ the Vision trigram is now "viz" to make it different from Visceratika
1.c/ the column names are now enclosed in double quotes

2/ vteslib.csv
2.a/ the "Draft" column has been removed
2.b/ the "Requirement" column has been moved to a new file: vteslibmeta.csv

3/ vteslibmeta.csv
3.a/ this is a new file containing the following columns: "Id","Name","Requirement"
3.b/ the requirements based on capacity have been updated from "capacity above X" to "capacity X+1 or more", "capacity less than X" to "capacity X-1 or less".
3.c/ Some missing requirements have been added (Legacy)


Please note that the artist column has not been moved yet.

The future releases of the csv will follow the above format.