v2.0.0

v2.0.0

Major changes

• Add Python 3 support, python 2/3 compatibility
• Add json and xml as output formats
• Switch to using the frictionless data datapackage json standard. This a
  backwards incompatible change as the form of dataset description files the
  retriever uses to describe the location and processing of simple datasets has
  changed.
• Add CLI for creating, editing, deleting datapackage.json scripts
• Broaden scope to include non-ecological data and rename to Data Retriever
• Major expansion of documentation and move documentation to Read the Docs
• Add developer documentation
• Remove the GUI
• Use csv module for reading of raw data to improve handling of newlines in fields
• Major expansion of integration testing
• Refactor regression testing to produce a single hash for a dataset regardless
  of output format
• Add continuous integration testing for Windows

Minor changes

• Use pyinstaller for creating exe for windows and app for mac and remove py2app
• Use 3 level semantic versioning for both scripts and core code
• Rename datasets with more descriptive names
• Add a retriever minimum version for each dataset
• Rename dataset description files to follow python modules conventions
• Switch to py.test from nose
• Expand unit testing
• Add version requirements for sqlite and postgresql
• Default to latin encoding
• Improve UI for updating user on downloading and processing progress

New datasets

• Added machine Learning datasets from UC Irvine's machine learning data sets