ORM Swap

[juancarlospaco]

Today a new ORM was born: https://github.com/moigagoo/norm#norm-a-nim-orm https://nimble.directory/pkg/norm

Its better than Gatabase: https://github.com/juancarlospaco/nim-gatabase

Tentative plans:

• [x] Remove Gatabase.
• [ ] Add Norm.
• [x] Deprecate Gatabase.
• [x] If anything good to salvage from Gatabase send Pull Request to Norm.
• [x] Remove Gatabase from Nimble.

Norm criticism:

• Seems Undocumented?, but have examples.
• Depends on Chronicles, but is maintained by Nimbus.

Gatabase criticism:

• Gatabase is stalled (with all coding going to Nimwc) offers no better features than Norm anyways.

Sorry about the all the noise but having no ORM from the start was a hard time, but I feel is something we MUST have.

[ThomasTJdev]

Hi @juancarlospaco

I'm in for staying and using pure SQL. Otherwise we could use https://github.com/ThomasTJdev/nim_sqlbuilder to ease the writing of SQL queries.

[juancarlospaco]

I like nim_sqlbuilder very much. :+1:

I was wondering if we can make like a mix between gatabase and nim_sqlbuilder, like Gatabase providing the UX for the end user and nim_sqlbuilder actually doing the job in the back. Gatabase uses pure SQL, just adds a comfortable DSL, the benefit is that DSL is almost valid SQL, then you can use any SQL WYSIWYG editor and copy over the SQL into the DSL, or write SQL.

Like I confirm we can add nim_sqlbuilder, just let me see how gatabase+sqlbuilder combined feels like. :thinking:

Basket looks awesome BTW.