Gereon Kaiping

Clean way to use tempfile.mkdtemp() with scripttest missing

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There should be an obvious way to use a temporary directory created by `tempfile.mkdtemp()` with scripttest, without triggering the assertion around line [322](https://github.com/pypa/scripttest/blob/master/scripttest.py#L322)

Forbid reference column pointing to unexpected table?

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In looking at the new [`get_foreign_key_target` Method in pycldf](https://github.com/cldf/pycldf/blob/edcdc0c1e612c2a7b94d28b40e93cfe032f65823/src/pycldf/dataset.py#L675), I noticed that it makes sense to always return and heed the referenced table of a foreign key – but that...

known-missing data, unknown-missing data, and impossible data

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I meant to leave this as a comment on the changes that introduced the new phrasing concerning [missing data](https://github.com/cldf/cldf/blob/08444cdadb00457757577299e519cb41c808ec71/README.md#missing-data) in the recent pull request, but somehow that went under. Currently,...

Additional constraints that might be worth checking

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Would it make sense to constrain the following two things in the specs and `cldf validate`? - The primary key of a table is its #id. - Every #reference (#parameterReference,...