A pull request is preferred now. The biggest problem with the importer that I recall was that it was completely unaware of prototypes (ERPrototypes) so that basically made it worthless for me. Are you having that problem? Reverse-engineering from the database itself can work well as an alternative if your names use underscores.
John On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 1:53 PM Musall Maik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a rather large project to migrate from EOF to Cayenne, and in > order to eliminate the manual cleanup steps I'd have to do after each > conversion attempt until I'm ready for the final run, I thought I could > have a look and try to improve the EOModel importer instead of wasting time > fiddling with my one project. > > To that end, what is the usual procedure to test changes made against the > modeler? Can I run it from within Eclipse? Or do I need to mvn install > every time I changed something? (Note that I'm new to both Cayenne and > Maven.) > > How am I supposed to contribute the changes? Pull request against the > github mirror? The website [1] suggest submitting a patch, but that feels > so old-school, and the website still explains how to create a patch with > subversion, so I guess that's no longer up to date anyway? > > Thanks > Maik > > [1] https://cayenne.apache.org/submit-patch.html > >
