I've also had to develop a homebaked solution to do the same. +1 for getting it into ant or at least hosting it somewhere.
Since ant-contrib is all but dead, is it time for a new "official" ant-contrib project? Andrus Adamchik-4 wrote: > > I developed an Ant task to maintain an evolving database schema via a > series of SQL scripts called "db patches". Now looking for an advice > from the Ant community on what would be a good home for such task. > > Some background... The task was developed by a single ASF committer > (me) in the course of Apache Cayenne development [1]. Cayenne project > already includes a number of Cayenne-specific Ant tasks, but this one > sticks out in that it has nothing to do with Cayenne. It is a generic > task that any project with a database can use. So Cayenne is not a > good home for it. > > Since it is a general-purpose task, making it an Ant core or an > optional task seems appropriate. It requires no incubation or a code > donation grant, as it was developed 100% within the ASF. Also it has > no external dependencies except for Ant (and a runtime dependency on a > JDBC driver). > > On the other hand it implies a certain simple workflow, so it is > somewhat different form say Copy or Tar. > > Also it is small enough to maintain it as a standalone project. > > So what are the thoughts of the Ant developers on that? > > Thanks, > Andrus Adamchik > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cayenne/sandbox/DBPatch/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Looking-for-home-for-DBPatch-Ant-task-tp16610869p16653919.html Sent from the Ant - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
