Merge pull request #8 from agmip/master

This will update your master to 1.2.4
Merge pull request #10 from agmip/master

Release to 1.2.5
[maven-release-plugin] prepare for next development iteration
Merge branch 'develop' (early part)
Merge pull request #11 from MengZhang/master

pull request
Fix gitignore file
Update the handling for getting file name from zip package
Update .gitignore
[maven-release-plugin] prepare release translator-dssat-1.2.8
Merge branch 'develop' (early part)
Merge pull request #84 from MengZhang/master

Develop pull request from Meng