Dtoolcore

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Fixed
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- Fixed several defects in how URIs were parsed and generated on Windows.

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Fixed
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- Actually fixed defect where using ``DTOOL_NUM_PROCESSES`` > 1 resulted in a
cPickle.PicklingError on some storage brokers. Multiprocessing is now only
used if the storage broker supports it.

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Fixed
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- Fixed defect where using ``DTOOL_NUM_PROCESSES`` > 1 resulted in
a cPickle.PicklingError on some storage brokers. Multiprocessing
is now only used if the storage broker supports it.

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Added
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- dtoolcore.DataSetCreator.put_readme() method
- dtoolcore.DataSetCreator.put_annotation() method

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Release with utilities to make it easier to create datasets using the Python API.

Added
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- dtoolcore.create_proto_dataset() helper function
- dtoolcore.create_derived_proto_dataset() helper function
- dtoolcore.DataSetCreator helper context manager class
- dtoolcore.DerivedDataSetCreator helper context manager class

Fixed
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- Made dtoolcore.DiskStorageBroker.put_item more Windows compatible
- Made dtoolcore.DiskStorageBroker.get_item_abspath more Windows compatible

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Added
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- Ability to use multiple processes (cores) to generate item properties for
manifest files in parallel. Set the environment variable
``DTOOL_NUM_PROCESSES`` to specify the number of processes to use.

Fixed
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- Included .dtool/annotations directory in DiskStorageBroker self description file