After discussing with Konsta Vesterinen from the Doctrine project, we agreed that we will be implementing new features to comply with the MDB2_Schema XML Standards. This means that we will be creating new methods that will give you the ability to install databases using the same XML Definition files than MDB2_Schema, ensuring that anyone using MDB2_Schema will be able to use the same XML Files within Doctrine.

By doing this, we will not have to depend on MDB2_Schema & MDB2 in Jaws and will be able to move on towards a DBAL & ORM application but moreover, we will be able to use the same files we used before, and that other people using MDB2_Schema use already.

This will be implemented within the Doctrine_Export and Doctrine_Import classes. Doctrine_Import has methods such as listViews, listTableColumns and a few others and by adding our new methods, we will ensure to build a portable schema definition of the actual databases and Doctrine_Export will be used to build the new Schemas from the actual database definitions.

Thanks to pookey for his fast answers on creating our two accounts (nicobn & davidc) for trac and svn commit access.

David.