On 27/05/11 12:30, Freako F. Freakolowsky wrote: > As i said, i can take a look (at the code that is). But as i've never > used SMW before i'd need some pointers on how to actualy test it. >
Ah, now I understand ... the problem that was reported by Rahul is a failure of the installation script that creates/updates the DB tables. So the according test is to follow the SMW installation instructions (copy files to extension folder, include file, go to the page Special:SMWAdmin and click on "initialise tables" [requires the web user to modify tables] or run the maintenance script SMW_setup.php [can use credentials from AdminSettings.php]). The code that attempts the related database updates is in [1]. Our main development support list is semediawiki-devel [2] (CC), and you can also find help on our IRC channel (#semantic-mediawiki at freenode). Jeroen recently fixed PostgreSQL support, so he might have some further suggestion what to test (or how to fix it). It might turn out that most Oracle support mainly requires that the code that now checks for postgres also checks for oracle (but otherwise does the same alternative things). Our current code often relies on DBMS names -- ideally, this should be changed to use the boolean methods of MediaWiki's Database class to check specific DBMS capabilities directly. Regards, Markus [1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/includes/storage/SMW_SQLHelpers.php?view=markup [2] http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki_mailing_lists > On 27. 05. 2011 13:16, Markus Krötzsch wrote: >> On 27/05/11 09:50, Freako F. Freakolowsky wrote: >>> I can take a look at it, but as i don't use SMW i'm thinking about >>> putting up a public test wiki in my office, so SMW ppl can test against >>> an oracle database backend ... how does that sound? >> >> Thanks, but I think that debugging the installation steps will be >> difficult using only a publicly accessible wiki (in the first place, >> this wiki could not install SMW until someone fixes the reported >> problems). So I think we first need to find somebody to debug the >> basic SMW Orcale support to the point where at least installation >> works. But thanks for the offer anyway. >> >> Markus >> >>> >>> On 27. 05. 2011 10:45, Markus Krötzsch wrote: >>>> On 26/05/11 21:38, Chad wrote: >>>>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Markus Krötzsch >>>>> <mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> >>>>> <mailto:mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: >>>>>> If you find concrete things that we should change to make it work on >>>>>> Oracle, then we are happy to take them into account. You can submit >>>>>> concrete suggestions to bugzilla.mediawiki.org. I think nobody of >>>>>> us has >>>>>> a license for Oracle, so we cannot really develop effectively for >>>>>> this >>>>>> platform. >>>>>> >>>>> [OT: I never knew that redirected!] >>>>> >>>>> There is a free (as in beer) version of Oracle you can download from >>>>> the Oracle website which would allow you to test it locally if you >>>>> wanted. >>>> Thanks, I was not aware of this. This really changes the situation. >>>> >>>> > I also know Jure (freakolowsky) is active in supporting Oracle >>>> for MW >>>> > core so if you had specific questions I'm sure he would be >>>> willing to >>>> > answer them. >>>> >>>> Ideally, we would also find some interested developer to take the lead >>>> for this task in SMW. Hopefully this would not be too much work since >>>> all our SQL is in two files, where only a few places do not use >>>> high-level MediaWiki SQL wrapper functions. Even without this, it would >>>> still be useful if interested users could describe Oracle-related >>>> issues >>>> in bugzilla, so that we do at least have them in our queue of todos. >>>> >>>> Markus >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>>> mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> <mailto:mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org> >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
