[UTILS] Improve b2view TUI
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- cli, documentation
Research direction
Start with the b2view project script and its tree, meta, vlmeta, and data views; assess navigation using real-world datasets such as parquet files from Hugging Face. Update doc/getting_started/overview.rst or add tools.rst with supported formats, launch instructions, and a screenshot or ASCII rendering, then link it from the parquet-to-blosc2 docs. Done means b2view is easier to browse and discoverable in the documentation.
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Description
The b2view command-line TUI (installed as a project script) allows to browse visually inspect a .b2nd or .b2z/.b2d file/dir. It has different views (tree, meta, vlmeta, data), but more love is needed to make it working in a smoother way and/or adding new features.
Also, although b2view has a specific guide at https://blosc.org/python-blosc2/guides/b2view.html, this can be improved by providing a better flow of the text.
Suggested work:
- Use real-world datasets (e.g. coming from parquet files in Hugging Face), and assess navegability on them. Try to improve visual aspects and browsability in general.
- Add a screenshot or short ASCII rendering of the TUI output
- Link it from the parquet-to-blosc2 docs (issue 3 above) since that tool and b2view are often used together
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 211
- Forks
- 63
- Avg merge
- 1d 9m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 7
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