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docs: clarify wording, fix index, add superseder link Make superseder, messages etc. properties index entries point to the right place. Link to description of using Superseder in the original overview. fix bad wording on boolean properties.
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129 migrating your database using the mysql client. You can
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130 choose to keep the older character set in config.ini.
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133 used. PostgreSQL schemas are supported to eliminate the
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138 into PostgreSQL.
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142 output, command history. Also on windows, pyreadline3 is
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143 supported to provide an editable interactive command line.
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146 now now the default and is opt-out.
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149 utils.expandfile. Javascript that is included in the
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150 Python core will be moved to external files and be able to
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151 have values from Roundup substituted in the Javascript.
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154 template. This allows returning json or xml from a
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155 template without a .json or .xml extention.
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158 endings fixing export/import on Windows and making exports
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159 portable across platforms.
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161 More info on the 79 changes can be found in the `change notes`_.
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163 Roundup Use Cases
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164 =================
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166 For more information on Roundup see the :doc:`features list
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167 <docs/features>`, :doc:`design overview <docs/design>`, and all the
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168 other :doc:`documentation <docs>`. Roundup has been deployed for:
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170 * bug tracking and TODO list management (the classic
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171 installation)
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173 answerers, linking to networking, system and development
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174 issue trackers)
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176 * sales lead tracking
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177 * conference paper submission and double-blind referee
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187 Try It Out
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188 ==========
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190 Roundup ships with a **demo tracker** to play with - you don't need to
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191 install Roundup. After you've unpacked the source, just run "``python
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194 Follow the source gratification mode with these steps (change the
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195 ``-2.4.0`` version identifier to match your downloaded file).
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202 python -c "import tarfile, sys; tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extractall();" roundup-2.4.0.tar.gz
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208 (The source download can also be used to `create a custom Docker
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209 image <docs/installation.html#docker-support>`_.)
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216 python3 -m venv roundup
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221 . roundup/bin/activate
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223 3. install the latest release of Roundup with::
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225 python3 -m pip install roundup
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229 roundup-demo
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231 using ``./demo`` as the directory and the ``classic`` tracker.
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238 Both of these methods produce the same result.
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240 Origin Story
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241 ============
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242 Roundup was originally released as version 0.1.1 in late August, 2001.
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249 .. _`download`: https://pypi.org/project/roundup/
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252 .. _`its own set of docs`: https://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev-docs/docs.html

Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/