Re: [basedb-devel] Mage-Tab export plugin

[Nicklas N. <ni...@th...>]

On 2011-08-31 09:43, Pawel Sztromwasser wrote:
> Hello BASE developers,
>
> By the end of the year ArrayExpress is going to remove a possibility of
> importing experiments using the Tab2Mage format. The only supported
> format will be Mage-Tab. We have been extensively using Tab2Mage and the
> BASE plugin that exports experiments in this format. I was wondering if
> anyone else is developing or planning to develop a plugin that would
> support Mage-Tab?

It would certainly be nice to see something happening in this area. One 
good reason to start on something new is that the Tab2Mage plug-in (and 
probably a lot of other plug-ins) will not work with the upcoming BASE 3 
release. The roadmap on the BASE site says September 15 but it will be 
postponed a month or two. I still think that if someone is interested to 
do this it would be possible to start developing against the BASE trunk 
code. The API is still a moving target but my hope is that most major 
changes (including database schema changes) have been settled within a 
few weeks.

/Nicklas