The installation manual was enhanced with the option of installing the project directly from Git repository. This option overlaps with the installation process for local development, so the development documentation page was also updated accordingly. (Redmine issue: #4216)

Hawat contains several application path calculations relative to application root path. The mechanism was broken, because these configurations were evaluated on compilation time and the APP_ROOT_PATH had then no effect. (Redmine issue: #4216)

This module does get executed very often as root and the log file may have root privileges. It should be rotated with separate configuration. This may however raise errors with duplicate configuration by logrotate, some versions do not allow configuration overriding. We will see, how this fix fares and perhaps another solution may be necessary.

I have removed explicit path to Python executable to prevent from any errors when moving Python venv for Mentat around the system.

(Redmine issue: #3387)

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Radko Krkoš authored 6 years ago and Jan Mach committed 6 years ago

* Uses decorator for exception management in data access funtions
  and retries on DB connection loss (generally DB server restart).

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Users are not happy when they enter empty help page. It is better to hide it until there is some useful content.

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Changes were necessary after previous commits. (Redmine issue: #1017,#3443)

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New mechanism for building Debian packages makes better use of debhelper. Previous solution with using Grunt for building the package was abandoned entirely. (Redmine issue: #3387,#4216)

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* The creation of Python virtual environment is now a separate makefile target.
* The 'develop' target now reuses already defined targets.
* Using python-dotenv to local configuration customizations.

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This version comes with improved application command line parameter documentation, some changes were necessary to make everything work again. (Redmine issue: #3387,#3361)

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Previous approach, while better in some aspects caused troubles on our automated build system, because it required for the Mentat to be correctly installed for hawat-cli to be available. (Redmine issue: #3387,#4216)

Without this it is not possible to use command line interface on our automated build system. (Redmine issue: #3387)

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Problem with the previous solution was, that full path to the extracted strings was visible in the message .po files. So the exact path to the folder from which the developer is working was visible, which is bad for so many reasons. (Redmine issue: #4789,#4216)

Pybabel translations are now implemented as built-in Flask CLI commands and accessible from 'hawat-cli intl' utility. This approach enables users to easily customize translations for their custom Mentat system installations, or adding new languages. The drawback of this approach is, that the commands are executed within the Flask`s application context, so the application must be properly installed on target system for everything to work properly. I have kept original translation commands in the makefile for future reference.

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Descriptions of common parameters should be in the documentation, so that the updates do not have to be done on so many places. Additional documentation should be present only for script/daemon specific parameters. (Redmine issue: #3387)

Added missing dots instead of blank lines. (Redmine issue: #3387)

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All configuration files should by default be in a most optimal state for quick deployment without any tinkerink. The demo configuration files are redundant and increase management overhead, there is one more place that needs to be updated. (Redmine issue: #3443)

(Redmine issue: #1017,#3443)