v0.2.5

Initial public release of barecat on PyPI.

Features

• Unified Barecat class with dict-like (bc['path']) and filesystem-like (bc.open(), bc.listdir(), bc.walk(), bc.glob()) APIs
• barecat.open() factory with standard mode strings ('r', 'w+', 'r+', etc.)
• Auto-codec system for transparent encoding/decoding based on file extension (.jpg, .pkl, .npy, etc.)
• CRC32C integrity verification on read
• Threadsafe mode with thread-local connections for multi-threaded data loading
• Tar stream support via barecat-from-tar-stream and barecat-to-tar-stream for pipeline workflows
• Archive format conversion between barecat, tar, and zip
• Qt6 GUI viewer for browsing archive contents
• Defragmentation tool to reclaim space from deleted entries

CLI

• barecat-create, barecat-extract, barecat-merge, barecat-defrag, barecat-to-tar, barecat-from-tar, barecat-viewer, and more

Architecture

• SQLite index with O(1) lookups and trigger-maintained directory statistics
• Sharded storage with configurable shard sizes
• src/ layout with setuptools_scm versioning

Documentation

• Sphinx docs on ReadTheDocs
• Published to PyPI