Description
Title
Precautions for global variables
Type
Improvement
Description
During the development of this task, all open issues related to global variables were reviewed and closed. It was observed that there wasn't an actual problem in these issues, as the most recent versions of the code had already resolved the mentioned concerns: (#2988 #3021 #2392).
Use Case
However, one particular issue (#3066) raised the hypothesis that the database was being deleted during updates. As a result, we considered changing the default location where the database is saved. However, this idea was soon discarded after attempting to reproduce the issue. Tests were conducted by creating the package using the poetry build command and installing it in virtual environments, where it was confirmed that the database was preserved between installations.
Implementation Plan
To ensure that environment variables are correctly handled by the code, PR #3284 was created, and to guide users on the necessary precautions, PR #3285 was introduced.
During the development of these PRs, it was identified that the refactoring could be expanded to other database entities, which is now available in the draft PR #3286.