New football.db Build System - Welcome Datafile - Goodbye Git 'n' Rake

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

FYI: I've uploaded a new sportdb command line tool version, that is,
v1.9.11. What's news?

The sportdb command line tool includes a new build system (as a new
and easier all-in-one option).

To try it - use the new Datafile - a mini language a.k.a.
domain-specific language (DSL) that lets you setup new football.db in
minutes.

For example, to setup a football.db for the World Cup 2014 use:

Datafile:

world 'openmundi/world.db', setup: 'countries'

football 'openfootball/national-teams'
football 'openfootball/world-cup', setup: '2014'



That's it. Now run

$ sportdb build

The new build command will look for the ./Datafile script in your
working folder
and

Step 1) Download all datasets as zip archives (from GitHub) to ./tmp
Step 2) Create all database tables
Step 3) Read/import all datasets from the zip archives in ./tmp (no
need to unpack)

That's it. Still early and rough. If you try the new Datafile
build let us know how it goes.

Cheers.