attempting some factorization

Author: CarloLucibello

src/FashionMNIST/FashionMNIST.jl

@@ -21,10 +21,7 @@ module FashionMNIST
 
     const DEFAULT_DIR = abspath(joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "..", "..", "datasets", "fashion_mnist"))
 
-    include(joinpath("Reader","Reader.jl"))
-    import .Reader.download_helper
+    include("reader.jl")
     include("interface.jl")
     include(joinpath("..", "MNIST", "utils.jl"))
-
-    Reader.download_helper(; nargs...) = Reader.download_helper(DEFAULT_DIR; nargs...)
 end

src/FashionMNIST/Reader/Reader.jl

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import ..MNIST.Reader
+
+Reader.set_msg_prompt("""
+    Dataset: THE FashionMNIST DATABASE of fashion products
+    Authors: Han Xiao, Kashif Rasul, Roland Vollgraf
+    Website: https://github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist
+
+    Paper: Han Xiao, Kashif Rasul, Roland Vollgraf "Fashion-MNIST: a Novel Image Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Algorithms."
+
+    The files are available for download at the offical website linked above.
+    """)
+
+Reader.set_baseurl("http://fashion-mnist.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/")

src/FashionMNIST/Reader/download.jl

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 module MLDatasets
 
+include("io/download.jl")
 include("io/CoNLL.jl")
 
 include("CIFAR10.jl")