Release 1.3.0

For help on installing and using Zowie, please see the project front page.

All changes in this release

This release fixes issues #13 and #18, updates the required version of some dependencies, and changes the minimum version of Python to version 3.8.

Detailed changes:

• Fix issue #13: filtering by date using the -d option is broken.
• Fix issue #18: installations using pipx failed.
• Updated versions of dependencies in requirements.txt.
• Added requirements-dev.txt.
• Improved codemeta.json.
• Updated Makefile and setup.py to use versions developed for other projects.
• Updated copyright year in various files.

Self-contained runnable programs

The first variant of a runnable Zowie program needs a Python interpreter version 3.8 or higher on your computer. run the following command in a terminal and take note of the version of Python that it prints:

python3 --version

Next,

1. In the files attached to this release, look for a ZIP file with a name that contains your version of Python
2. Click on that ZIP file to download it
3. Unzip the file (if your browser did not automatically unzip it for you)
4. Open the folder thus created (it will have a name like zowie-1.2.0-macos-python3.8)
5. Look inside for zowie and move it to a location where you put other command-line programs (such as /usr/local/bin).

If you want to put it in /usr/local/bin but that folder does not exist on your computer yet, you can create it by opening a terminal window and running the following command (prior to moving zowie into /usr/local/bin):

sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin

The following is an example command that you can type in a terminal to move Zowie there:

sudo mv zowie /usr/local/bin

Note: the first time you run this ready-to-run version, Zowie will take longer than usual to start because it does a one-time configuration step, but on subsequent runs, startup times should be shorter.