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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (!)