I have not had much time, or need, to work on the driver lately. I did manage to merge in all our changes that provide the PL/SQL layer though, so really it should just be in bug fix mode right now. We've been using a near CVS version of this driver in development and production for some time now. Thats not to say its entirely stable though. We pretty much only use named bind variables (:mycol) that are automagically bound from the environment which means options like -bind haven't gotten a workout.
If anybody has time to test out the driver and report back any issues I'd probably find the time to fix them. I know a few people have reported issues to me and I've tried to get those resolved. As a matter of fact just this past weekend I spent time trying to debug an issue with lobs that turns out might have been an issue with Oracle 10g.
As for backward compatibility the current CVS code should be 100% backward compatible AFAIK. If its not please let me know and I'll fix it. I did have some ideas for 3.x that might break backwards compat. but I haven't done anything yet.
I guess the bottom line is that for most people the 2.7 version of the driver is enough so I'm not really feeling the pressure to make a release.
Hope this helps clarify the status of the Oracle driver.
- Jeremy
On Feb 24, 2005, at 1:06 AM, Andrew Piskorski wrote:
What's the current status of the nsoracle module? I see that Jeremy Collins made a bunch of changes in 2004, but nothing since September, and no new version was ever released since 2.7, which is what OpenACS and probably most other folks are still using. I also heard complaints from Don Baccus that the nsoracle changes in CVS are not backwards compatible, but I don't know the details. Jeremy?
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