Hi Shai, On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:32:29 PM UTC+1, Shai Berger wrote: > > In recent years, I have been the main contributor to South's MSSQL and > Oracle > backends. I am biased towards having MSSQL treated as an equal to the > database > systems supported in core, but also towards support of backend-specific > low- > level code in user apps. Also, I am a Linux user -- I use django-pyodbc > for my > work on South, not django-mssql. >
I am obviously biased against postgres as my previous post indicated, but regardless of that I think that MSSQL should stay outside of core. No core-developer I know actually uses Windows as base OS and to my knowledge no one uses MSSQL. This would put the expected support for South below what we have for Oracle currently. And where the dependency is weaker, being in core was not a > guarantee for fixes -- Django carried significant Oracle problems for > quite > long, and they were just not deemed crucial. > Now that we test on Oracle once again I am committed to have a full passing testsuite with 1.6 (whatever that means, since I don't use Oracle on a daily base I can't say what a running testsuite actually means for a project). I am worried that the result of such change will not be that MSSQL is > treated > as well as Postgres is today, but that Oracle is treated as bad as MSSQL > is > today. > That might as well be true, if Oracle is outside of core I personally wouldn't put much effort in fixing stuff there (this obviously might change depending on whether I use Oracle at work or not). Cheers, Florian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.