I created a ticket and PR to bump the minimum cx_oracle version to 5.2. https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/27649 https://github.com/django/django/pull/7752
On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 3:11:33 AM UTC-5, Shai Berger wrote: > > On Thursday 22 December 2016 00:07:05 Josh Smeaton wrote: > > I don't think licensing allows OS maintainers to package up cx_Oracle > and > > its dependencies, so I'd like to hear from others if this is a thing. > > > I checked and cx_Oracle does not seem to be packaged in Debian (at least > not > in its free repos), although Oracle drivers for other languages (Perl and > Common Lisp) are (in the "contrib" part, where you can put free software > which > depends on proprietary). So, it actually may be an issue. > > > > > Personally, I think the impact of a minimum version bump to 5.2 would be > > low as most should be running on 5.1.3 or greater anyway. > > > I agree. As far as I'm aware, at least part of the appeal of the old > cx_Oracle > versions was support of old Oracle versions. A couple of years ago we set > a > firm policy of dropping support for EOL'd product versions, and I think > even > Oracle 11.2 is getting there soon, so that's no longer an issue. > > Shai. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/303f020f-c779-4aaf-b970-5bcd2bb3cf5b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
