announcing datapkggui v0.2.0

2011-10-24

I think it is already the time for the second public release of datapkggui. None of the previous milestones has been achieved in this release, because I wanted to work on two important aspects first: code cleanup and killing of running operations.

The project is also available on PyPi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkggui

What is included in this release?

• Possibility to search for a package in TheDataHub

• Gathering extended information about a Package and download it from there

• Download a Package and its resources

• Clean (=erase) a partially downloaded package if download is not successfull

• Threaded operations, fluid GUI

• Operations communicate nicely with the GUI; an operations can be in state “started”, “finished” or “error”

• Possibility to Kill current running operations

• Implementation of a (not yet complete) library that is proposed as the standard datapkg library

• Code heavily refactored and cleaned up

What will be next? The following are the next features that I plan to include in the next releases:

• Creation of a Package and Resources

• Registration of a Package in The Data Hub

• Localization of the program

• Integration of the Program in SofaStats

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