@michaelchin - I'm not sure if this is already an option, but can plate-model-manager download files to the user's cache directory?

Yes, the plate-model-manager can save the files to user-specified folder.

We should encourage people to use the plate-model-manager, as @michaelchin is doing for the notebooks, but we should also adapt the existing DataServer object to use plate-model-manager under the hood so that we don't upset existing GPlately users. We can always deprecate DataServer in the future if we need to.

Yes, this is a good idea. Another option is to keep both for a while. The plate-model-manager is new and maybe have some bugs. If we keep DataServer as it is, users have the option to fall back to DataServer if the plate-model-manager does not work for them.

Maybe print deprecated message when users use DataServer to encourage them to switch to the new plate-model-manager.

Hi @brmather

Are you still on this? I can finish this if you like.

this issue is related to #149