Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Installation breaking on Oracle 8.1.7

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5: Re: Installation breaking on Oracle 8.1.7 (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 04/21/04 01:39 AM
What I'm trying to say is to inform folks that recent improvements seem to have broken functionality ...
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6: Re: Installation breaking on Oracle 8.1.7 (response to 5)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 04/21/04 02:55 AM

Okay, I sent off a message. I remember the discussion where someone was happy to make 'improvements'. I thought we mentioned they shouldn't break anything along the way.

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7: Re: Installation breaking on Oracle 8.1.7 (response to 6)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 04/21/04 07:52 AM
To be fair, I vaguely remember that discussion too, and some of the changes he planned would be useful. And since a big part of what he was also volunteering for was to just plain clean up and maintain the code (which many including Rob Mayoff have described as ugly and nasty), it is probably in our interest to encourage rather than discourage his efforts.

Also, agreeing not to release any broken code is not quite the same thing as promising to never ever commit anything which might have bugs. But looks like his last commit was 2004/02/15, more than two months ago, so yeah, that does seem like rather too long a time to leave egregiously broken code (which is what the errors above indicate, right?) sitting unfixed on the CVS head.

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8: Re: Installation breaking on Oracle 8.1.7 (response to 7)
Posted by Tom Jackson on 04/21/04 09:00 AM

He wrote me privately, and his anticipated changes are in the changelog. After reading that, and noting that ScottG released 2.7 the same day as the changes started, seems like everything is okay. I'm sure it is frustrating for those who had to track this down, but it looks like things could be reversed if the work doesn't get finished. Maybe a note in the install guide to try 2.7 until further notice?