> Well here's the deal...
>
> I played around with Schema a bit last night.

I'm really happy now :P

>  I have only a few
> issues with it in practice:

> 1.  It doesn't handle autoincrement correctly in the latest nightly
> build when you generate a schema from an existing table.

It's working for me in the rev 6990 in mysql.

> 2.  The downloadable 1.2 beta has major bugs in it like an incorrect
> refernce to the string tokenizer so newbies may not even be fully
> exploring Schema in the console!

Well, I hope stable is coming soon.

> Aside from that...
>
> You can basically use the schema tool as migrations.

In that case I think Joel's migrations are better, but I always talk
about my personal experience... YMMV

> You can create Schema.php and then create Schema_2.php and so on.
> You're then able to note version numbers you want to "migrate" to in
> the console.  So far as I can tell, it has a lot in common with the
> old way that migrations worked in Rails 2.0.
>
> Given that this is now how Schema works I think it may be worthwhile
> to investigate different ways to use Schema.

Sure, there are many ways of using a tool.

>  Dardo has one
> methodology that he's been evangelizing in this thread.

"A voice of one calling in the desert" comes now to my mind, :P

>  I wonder if
> we could get phpNut or someone on the core team more familiar with
> Schema's development to comment on the design decisions behind it
> given the functionality that hasn't been talked about on here.

That would be great.

>  I'll
> probably put together a little tutorial or something for my blog once
> I get everything all worked out on my own, but this was news to me!

Looking forward to see it.

Regards,
- Dardo Sordi.

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