- Updated rsync command flags for more efficient file transfer
- Replaced `-avz` with `-vzrt` to improve transfer performance
- Maintained existing secure password handling and upload destination

- Added temporary directory for rsync transfer to improve reliability
- Set explicit file and directory permissions for uploaded artifacts
- Maintained existing secure password handling and upload destination

- Added error handling to rsync command to allow exit code 23 (partial transfer)
- Maintained existing secure password handling and upload configuration
- Improved workflow reliability by preventing unnecessary workflow failures

- Updated rsync command to use `|| true` for unconditional success
- Ensures workflow continues even if rsync encounters partial transfer or other non-critical errors
- Maintains existing secure password handling and upload configuration

- Removed temporary directory creation step
- Simplified rsync command by removing unnecessary flags
- Maintained secure password handling and upload destination

- Updated Makefile to support dynamic platform detection and configuration
- Simplified build commands for Windows and Unix-like systems
- Improved GitHub Actions workflow to use Makefile for consistent builds
- Added Windows platform support in build matrix
- Streamlined artifact generation and checksum creation
- Replaced custom rsync upload with GitHub Actions rsync deployment

- Added platform-specific checksum generation for Windows
- Implemented PowerShell script to generate SHA256 checksums
- Fixed line endings for Windows-generated checksum file
- Ensured consistent checksum file format across platforms

- Updated clean target to use platform-specific file removal command
- Added conditional handling for Windows file and directory deletion
- Ensured consistent clean behavior across Windows and Unix-like systems

- Added `rsync://` protocol prefix to remote host configuration
- Ensured compatibility with rsync server addressing
- Maintained existing secure upload configuration

- Added platform-specific checksum generation for Linux and macOS
- Updated workflow to use different checksum commands based on operating system
- Maintained consistent SHA256 checksum file creation across platforms
- Disabled fail-fast strategy to ensure all build targets are processed

- Implemented platform-specific rsync deployment for Unix and Windows
- Added rsync installation for Windows using Chocolatey
- Created separate deployment steps for Unix and Windows environments
- Improved password file handling with platform-specific approaches
- Maintained secure upload configuration with error tolerance

- Updated Makefile to extract version from git tags dynamically
- Added cross-platform version detection for Windows and Unix-like systems
- Implemented fallback to 'v0.0.0' if no valid tag is found
- Removed hardcoded version number

- Added fetch-depth: 0 to actions/checkout to retrieve complete git history
- Ensures all tags and commit history are available for version generation
- Supports dynamic version extraction from git tags

- Added cross-platform version detection for Windows and Unix-like systems
- Implemented dynamic version extraction from git tags using shell and PowerShell commands
- Provided fallback to '0.0.0' if no valid tag is found
- Enhanced version generation logic in GitHub Actions workflow

- Simplified version extraction script for Windows using PowerShell
- Improved shell script for Unix-like systems
- Ensured consistent version detection across platforms
- Removed redundant shell commands and improved readability

- Updated macOS checksum generation script to handle file filtering
- Prevented overwriting existing checksum file
- Ensured only valid files are included in SHA256SUMS.darwin.txt
- Enhanced robustness of checksum generation process

- Updated PowerShell script in Makefile to improve version tag extraction
- Simplified version detection logic in GitHub Actions package workflow
- Maintained consistent cross-platform version generation approach
- Improved error handling and fallback mechanism for version extraction

…ions

- Updated PowerShell version extraction logic in Makefile
- Simplified version tag parsing for Windows environments
- Improved command structure for more reliable version detection
- Maintained consistent cross-platform version generation approach

- Added new `get-version` job to extract version consistently across build matrix
- Simplified version detection logic in build job
- Removed redundant version extraction steps
- Passed version as an input to build job using GitHub Actions outputs
- Updated Makefile to use default version fallback

- Updated rsync deployment command to use `${{ env.VERSION }}` instead of `$VERSION`
- Ensured consistent environment variable referencing in GitHub Actions workflow
- Maintained cross-platform rsync deployment approach

- Updated GitHub Actions workflow to use 'macOS' instead of 'Darwin'
- Ensured consistent runner OS detection for macOS checksum generation
- Maintained cross-platform compatibility in package workflow

- Replaced `ubuntu-latest` with `ubuntu-20.04` in package workflow
- Maintained consistent runner configuration across jobs
- Ensured stable build environment for Linux builds

- Added CentOS 7 build configuration in GitHub Actions workflow
- Updated Makefile to support optional platform and architecture variables
- Improved cross-platform build and packaging flexibility
- Enabled Docker-based build for CentOS 7 environment

- Added `importlib-metadata` installation for CentOS 7 build
- Updated checksum generation to use platform-specific filename
- Enhanced build process for CentOS 7 environment

- Replaced default Python with Python 3.8.12 from source
- Added dependencies for Python compilation
- Installed PyInstaller for build process
- Updated workflow to use custom Python 3.8 installation
- Configured pip and added necessary build tools

- Replaced manual Python 3.8.12 compilation with SCL Python 3.8
- Streamlined package installation and environment setup
- Reduced workflow complexity by using Software Collections Python
- Updated build command to use system Python from SCL

…entOS 7 workflow

- Reverted to compiling Python 3.8.12 from source instead of using Software Collections
- Added necessary dependencies for Python compilation
- Installed Python 3.8.12 with optimizations
- Created symlinks for python3 and pip3
- Updated build command to use manually installed Python 3.8

…OS 7 workflow

- Added sqlite-devel package to Python compilation dependencies
- Enabled SQLite extensions during Python configuration
- Maintained optimized Python 3.8.12 installation process

- Added `--enable-shared` flag during Python configuration
- Configured dynamic library path with `/etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf`
- Ran `ldconfig` to update shared library cache
- Maintained previous Python 3.8.12 installation optimizations

- Installed urllib3 with version less than 2.0.0 to prevent potential compatibility issues
- Ensured stable dependency management in the package build process

…ons workflow

- Created a new `centos7` Makefile target for CentOS 7 build process
- Extracted Docker-based CentOS 7 build steps from GitHub Actions workflow
- Simplified package workflow by referencing the new Makefile target
- Maintained existing Python 3.8.12 installation and build configuration