Well, until the day that "Scrap Oracle" TIP gets passed, I will remain
shocked that
most - as opposed to merely a few -
OpenACS developers are too damn lazy to even install both supported
RDBMSs on their machines.
For anyone with the technical skills that I suspect, hope, and assume
most of the core OpenACS contributors have, and unless my 9i install
experience was grossly atypical (which is somewhat possible, as I was
using an ancient Red Hat 7.3 box), installing a development-grade
Oracle instance probably boils down to no more than an afternoon or
two of work, maybe once or twice per year.
What is the biggest obstacle preventing better Oracle support?
Install docs for 9i and 10g? What? If there's something I might be
able to do to help improve OpenACS Oracle support, I definitely want
to at least know what it is...
