Re: [ANN] Maven Database Migration Plugin v0.9.1

2009-03-12 Thread Rusty Wright
My vote is for using xml, not sql, for the ddl. For example, have a look at Apache DDLUtils (which I feel isn't as well known as it ought to be). It's really nice to have just one ddl which works across multiple vendors when you want to make sure your stuff works on Postgres, SQL Server,

Re: [ANN] Maven Database Migration Plugin v0.9.1

2009-03-11 Thread Christian Nelson
Geoffrey: I haven't used Liquibase, so I'm not the best person to highlight all of the differences between the two projects. Like some other folks on this list, I only learned about Liquibase a few weeks ago (and haven't tried it out yet). However, there are a few notable differences as far as

Re: [ANN] Maven Database Migration Plugin v0.9.1

2009-03-10 Thread Geoffrey Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Christian Nelson cnel...@slac.com wrote: The db-migration-maven-plugin http://code.google.com/p/c5-db-migration/provides support for managing project database structure changes over time (a la rails migrations). Each change is captured as a discrete migration

Re: [ANN] Maven Database Migration Plugin v0.9.1

2009-03-10 Thread Rusty Wright
This is the first I've ever heard of LiquiBase; according to the archives there's only one other email from October 2008 that mentions it. It seems to me that there ought to be better marketing for maven and its plugins; see, for example, the huge list of eclipse plugins that you can get to

Re: [ANN] Maven Database Migration Plugin v0.9.1

2009-03-10 Thread Geoffrey Wiseman
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Rusty Wright rusty.wri...@gmail.comwrote: This is the first I've ever heard of LiquiBase; according to the archives there's only one other email from October 2008 that mentions it. It seems to me that there ought to be better marketing for maven and its

Re: [ANN] Maven Database Migration Plugin v0.9.1

2009-03-10 Thread Rusty Wright
Yeah, I just wanted to carp because there are so many reasons to use maven but no easy way to find out why. Geoffrey Wiseman wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Rusty Wright rusty.wri...@gmail.comwrote: This is the first I've ever heard of LiquiBase; according to the archives there's