I can take a look at it, but as i don't use SMW i'm thinking about putting up a public test wiki in my office, so SMW ppl can test against an oracle database backend ... how does that sound?
On 27. 05. 2011 10:45, Markus Krötzsch wrote: > On 26/05/11 21:38, Chad wrote: >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Markus Krötzsch >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If you find concrete things that we should change to make it work on >>> Oracle, then we are happy to take them into account. You can submit >>> concrete suggestions to bugzilla.mediawiki.org. I think nobody of us has >>> a license for Oracle, so we cannot really develop effectively for this >>> platform. >>> >> [OT: I never knew that redirected!] >> >> There is a free (as in beer) version of Oracle you can download from >> the Oracle website which would allow you to test it locally if you wanted. > Thanks, I was not aware of this. This really changes the situation. > > > I also know Jure (freakolowsky) is active in supporting Oracle for MW > > core so if you had specific questions I'm sure he would be willing to > > answer them. > > Ideally, we would also find some interested developer to take the lead > for this task in SMW. Hopefully this would not be too much work since > all our SQL is in two files, where only a few places do not use > high-level MediaWiki SQL wrapper functions. Even without this, it would > still be useful if interested users could describe Oracle-related issues > in bugzilla, so that we do at least have them in our queue of todos. > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
