On Oct 6, 7:11 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 07:33 -0700, varikin wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I will test this, but I also want to point something out. I see a lot
> > of talk about developers not having access to Oracle, but that is
> > wrong.
>
> I have neither the disk space or the CPU power on my laptop to run the
> Oracle tests in a VM in any practical sense. It's not merely difficult
> or unbelievably time consuming; it's impossible. I used to have a 64 bit
> machine that had Oracle installed on it (sometimes -- VMWare pretty
> regularly broke with kernel upgrades, so I was often in a position of
> not being able to run VMware because I chose to have other bug and
> security fixes installed on my system) and it took hours to run the
> Oracle test suite, particularly if something went wrong and I had to
> untangle things from an intermediate state. These days I only have
> access to a laptop that is quite a few years old now, so that option
> isn't available to me any longer.
>
> I've agreed to the Oracle developer license in the past (before I
> started ever doing Django development work) and sometimes Oracle's
> authentication server on their website was up for long enough I was able
> to log in and download the developer edition ("unbreakable", my ass! The
> backend to their website was broken pretty much all the time last year).
> I'm aware it is possible to get a developer edition, but being able to
> download a tarball isn't the sole requirement.
>
> This is one of the very few areas I have to totally rely on other
> members of the community to do the final piece of any development work I
> do and I make no apologies for that.
>
> Fortunately, in this case Justin has been able to do the requisite
> testing and pointed out an assumption I missed in my fake testing. I
> need to rethink the solution a little and probably hold my nose and
> commit one fix to 1.0.X and a more holistic change to trunk. I just need
> to work out the details of that second piece first to avoid too much
> churn.
>
> Regards,
> MalcolmI would like to thank everyone for their responses. I was just reading the comment about not having Oracle available incorrectly. Being a developer and former tech support for an app that uses Oracle and makes Oracle look lightweight, I think about it a bit differently. BTW, I did test and find the same results Justin commented in the ticket. Thanks, John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
