I've just put out a beta of a major new version of datapkg (see Changelog below):
Release: <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg> Docs: <http://packages.python.org/datapkg/> There's a quick getting started section below (also see docs). This is a substantial release with a lot of new features. As this is a client app which will run on a variety of platforms its been released as a beta first so there's a chance to catch any of the cross-platform compatibility bugs that inevitably show up. [1] I'd therefore really welcome any feedback especially regarding bugs and from people using platforms I don't usually -- such as windows! Regards, Rufus [1]: my favourite from last time was a variation between python 2.5 and 2.6 in the way urlparse functioned for non-standard schemes ... ## Get started fast # 1. Install: (requires python and easy_install) $ easy_install datapkg # 2. [optional] Take a look at the manual $ datapkg man # 3. Search for something $ datapkg search ckan:// gold gold-prices -- Gold Prices in London 1950-2008 (Monthly) # 4. Get some data # This will result in a csv file at /tmp/gold-prices/data $ datapkg download ckan://gold-prices /tmp ## Changelog * (MAJOR) Support for uploading datapkgs (upload.py) * (MAJOR) Much improved and extended documenation * (MAJOR) Make datapkg easily extendable * Support for adding new Index types with plugins * Support for adding new Commands with command plugins * Support for adding new Distributions with distribution plugins * Improved package download support (also now pluggable) * New sqlite-based DB index (ticket:360) * Improved spec: support for db type index + better documentation * Better configuration management (especially internally) * Reduce dependencies by removing dependency on PasteScript and PasteDeploy * Various minor bugfixes and code improvements _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
