Add support for Oracle

[jarshwah]

This isn't high on my to-do list because it's not exactly easy, especially on debian based systems. There's also non-trivial licensing concerns with the various libraries needed from oracle that require click through license acceptance.

[felixxm]

@jarshwah You do not need instantclient anymore (see #40 (comment)).

[felixxm]

@jarshwah Sorry for confusing 😞, it seems that basic instantclient is still required if you do not have Oracle database installed locally. The only thing that has been changed is that you do not need Oracle SDK anymore.

[danizen]

@jarshwah, I've just gotten through installing Oracle XE 11.2.0.2 on Bionic Beaver, and I can at least login as the system user. I still haven't gotten the unit tests running yet. I also know ansible, so once I get it working on my system, I'll try to add it to your Vagrantfile.

I'm not too keen on enabling nfs on my laptop - with vagrant-share are there kernel mode (bind) methods?

[danizen]

I'm not too keen on enabling nfs on my laptop - with vagrant-share are there kernel mode (bind) methods?

I just ran systemctl disable nfs-server, and I can start it manually before starting the box. It isn't a CI environment, after all. I might edit it to use a different sort of sharing since guest additions seems to be working ok.

[jarshwah]

Hi Dan,

Before you go too far down this road, please be aware of #40

I think the preference is to move to a docker based system and retire the vagrant setup. Too many issues for newer contributors that are mostly taken care of with docker-compose etc.

[timgraham]

By the way, the minimum supported Oracle version for Django's master branch is currently 12.1.