I found this in the 1.7.0 release notes
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-N
OTES. I guess this says it all.
== Compatibility ==
Experimental Oracle support has been dropped as it is unmaintained.
Oh well, I'll need to find another wiki or get my DB people to also
support MySQL, which they snear at, so it may take many meetings with
lots of free food.
-Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Church [mailto:robchur@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:24 AM
To: Wikimedia developers
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Oracle Support?
On 23/08/06, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov>
wrote:
I'm interested in MediaWiki running with Oracle
and after searching
through the archives it appears there was an attempt back around
version
1.5 - 1.6 but nothing since then. Is there a plan to support Oracle
in the future or has it be put on the shelf?
I don't think there's an official effort. From time to time, people
whinge about it, and our lead developer invites them or their
organisation to contact him if interested in helping out, but nothing
happens.
This isn't unusual; it took a good deal of time for us to get decent
PostgreSQL support.
The WikiMatrix (
http://www.wikimatrix.org/) reports
MediaWiki supports
Oracle. I guess that is incorrect at this time?
Yes. I wouldn't trust services that don't seem to verify or update
information, myself...
Rob Church
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