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/
>
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