Dear all,
You might have noticed recently various changes on CVS with changes for Oracle. OpenACS core can now be installed on Oracle 19c, which is the Long Term Release of Oracle with a support end date of April 30, 2027.
Since the Oracle setup for is not fully trivial and offers many options, I have saved my installation notes in the wiki.
The installation leads to a development version (acs-core, with locally installed developer support) for performing compatibility tests etc. with Oracle. For getting all application packages fully working is certainly more work. However, one of the intention of this work is to open up a migration path for old Oracle based installations to provide a working acs-core, such these applications can benefit from the recent security, performance and functional improvements in OpenACS. Ideally, these applications have just to care about their "own" packages.
Note that I have mostly worked on new installations under Oracle, and only occasionally added/fixed upgrade scripts. However, legacy installations might find these changes also useful for cherry-picking.
All the best
-gn