[Slashcode-development] Oracle Port Progress, April 23: The Eagle Has Landed

[Stephen C. <the...@wa...>]

I just finished a marathon session checking every method that wasn't
overriden yet to make sure it didn't need to be.  (Guess what -- most of them
did).  For better or for worse, here it is, as threatened yesterday.

1.  Grab the latest CVS from SourceForge (this was diffed against it about ten
    minutes ago).
2.  Untgz the attached in your working directory.
3.  patch -p0 < oraslash.patch
4.  Pray and follow the INSTALL instructions.

As usual, no guarantees are offered.  I can tell you it (mostly) works for me
and that's about it.  There are still some issues with slashd but these stem
more from the way I installed Slash on my local box than anything
else.  Theoretically it will work properly with a proper installation.

Note that this is an extremely brute force hack at the moment.  The stuff for
placeholders has been in for a while but it's only used where necessary -- just
about everything is copied from the MySQL driver verbatim and changed where
appropriate.  Deadlines are my excuse -- the 2.0 chopping block is being wheeled
out and I'd prefer to see some sentiment of Oracle support in there, even if it
sucks from a programmer's standpoint.  I do intend to clean up as much as I can
before they decide to cut off submissions.

Anyway, try it out on Oracle, if you dare :)

-- 
Stephen Clouse <the...@wa...>
warpcore.org Founder, Chief Megalomaniac, and Evil Overlord