RELEASE-0.78.0.md

Itools 0.78.0 - 2019/02/08

Itools 0.78.0 is a transitional version. We've:

• removed unused and unmaintained code to simplify migration to python3.
• removed C server to avoid complex migration to python3.
• removed itools.vfs to avoid complex dependency with GIO
• fixed various bugs

The purpose is to prepare future:

• Migration to python3
• Increase performances of database
• Possibility to add an SQL backend (posgres json for example ?)
• Allow to handle several requests at once on ikaaro webserver
• Simplify build of javascript web applications with ikaaro

Lot of works remains to be cleaned... In 0.78 we'll try to make non breaking changes. (or small ones).

Changes

• Database: Refactor code to ensure only one is opened at once
• Database: Add static database to save binaries
• Database: use with statement to open database
• Database: Add Backend cls to allow the creation of several backends
• Database: Add environment variable TEST_DB_WITHOUT_COMMITS=1 to desactivate GIT commits and have faster commits
• SoupServer: Remove soup server, we'll use WSGI in ikaaro
• Context: Ensure only one context is used at once with gevent.local
• Context: Add get_session_timeout method
• Context: Add cache for cookies
• Build: msgfmt: Intercept build errors
• Build: npm: Intercept build errors
• Scripts: Remove old iodf-greek scripts
• PIP: Migrate to version 10
• Loop: Use gevent for cron
• POHandler: Keep references at loading
• i18n: only extract text from MSG not from unicode texts
• build: run npm install' and gulp buildonly inui_dev/` folders
• Remove unmaintained itools.vfs package
• Now HTML files can be translated at build
• Now we can extract units from JS files