Re: Supporting and using EOL'd software (was Re: Time to drop support for Oracle < 11?)

2014-06-15 Thread Shai Berger
On Sunday 15 June 2014 10:59:17 Michael Manfre wrote: > I don't see how it should be up to Django to continue to support all of > these archaic versions of Oracle. To paraphrase the mantra repeated during > various mssql discussions, "Django doesn't need to include everything in > core, it just nee

Re: Supporting and using EOL'd software (was Re: Time to drop support for Oracle < 11?)

2014-06-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Michael Manfre wrote: > I don't see how it should be up to Django to continue to support all of > these archaic versions of Oracle. To paraphrase the mantra repeated during > various mssql discussions, "Django doesn't need to include everything in > core, it just n

Re: Supporting and using EOL'd software (was Re: Time to drop support for Oracle < 11?)

2014-06-15 Thread Michael Manfre
I don't see how it should be up to Django to continue to support all of these archaic versions of Oracle. To paraphrase the mantra repeated during various mssql discussions, "Django doesn't need to include everything in core, it just needs to make it possible for others to implement". If people fee

Re: Supporting and using EOL'd software (was Re: Time to drop support for Oracle < 11?)

2014-06-14 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Shai Berger wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> TL;DR -- ...sorry, there's no TL;DR here. It's a bunch of separate ideas. >> It's >> a little lengthy. Please bear with me. >> >> I'd

Supporting and using EOL'd software (was Re: Time to drop support for Oracle < 11?)

2014-06-14 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Shai Berger > wrote: > Hi guys, > > TL;DR -- ...sorry, there's no TL;DR here. It's a bunch of separate ideas. > It's > a little lengthy. Please bear with me. > > I'd like to compare our support for old database servers with our support > for old browsers. We only r

Supporting and using EOL'd software (was Re: Time to drop support for Oracle < 11?)

2014-06-14 Thread Shai Berger
Hi guys, TL;DR -- ...sorry, there's no TL;DR here. It's a bunch of separate ideas. It's a little lengthy. Please bear with me. I'd like to compare our support for old database servers with our support for old browsers. We only recently dropped code that supported IE 6/7 (!) for a security (!) fix