On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Anssi Kääriäinen <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know about licensing... I believe the issue is that we don't > have enough manpower to keep more backends updated in core. Even now > the Oracle backend is somewhat problematic - there aren't that many > contributors (or committers for that matter) who have Oracle > installed, and thus it is somewhat common that commits break that > backend. Then we fix those errors afterwards when/if we spot the > errors. Adding another not commonly available backend to the matrix > would cause more similar problems.
I try to make a point of running the Oracle backend through the test suite in the lead-up to each minor release and fixing whatever I find. Unfortunately, I rarely find the time to do much more than that these days. I wonder whether Oracle would even make it into core if the decision were revisited. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
