[Gmod-schema] Doing away with modules

[Scott C. <sc...@sc...>]

Hi All,

The last day and a half a few people have been working on modernizing Chado
and it's build procedure (lots of good stuff going on).  One of the things
we're considering is removing "modules" from the Chado build paradigm.
Using automated build/migration tools (Flyway) makes maintaining modules as
individual files much more difficult.  As a result, we're thinking of doing
away with them to be replaced with a single default schema SQL file (which
is what gets release when we build releases anyway).

There is an issue open in the Chado issue tracker to discuss this:

https://github.com/GMOD/Chado/issues/90

and I wanted to bring it to the community's attention in case anybody has
any strong feelings about this one way or the other. I feel like this is a
concept that has probably outlived it usefulness, at least as actual
individual files representing the modules.  While I think I will continue
to think of the Chado schema as composed of individual modules, I don't
think it's necessary to maintain it as these separate files any more.

Thoughts anyone?

Thanks,
Scott


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