added an initial sphinx documentation folder
Workaround to deal with old pickle files
Importing pickle for backwards compatibility
Typo
Replaced references to pickle with gzipped JSON
Use jsonpickle to store JSON-ifiable data in the file cache
allow input in basic usage
allow startpath
added more debug info in assert
Merge pull request #61 from JensTimmerman/documentation

added an initial sphinx documentation folder
fix remarks
Merge pull request #64 from stdweird/run_qa

add input and startpath options
Fix file closing issue.
Write gzipped json and catch and raise errors when reasing a pickle
Use a string key in the nagios cache

- Python's JSON fails to convert integer keys correctly
- id /= decode . encode
added initial simple option documentation
added generaloption documentation
fix in generaloption
Return a boolean if the update stores new data
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:hpcugent/vsc-base

Conflicts:
	test/fancylogger.py