This version has been in the tree for over a year and uses the ruby-ng framework. Also, quoting from bug 388711: "Also, as of two years ago, the ruby-oci8 1.x series has been dead, and the 2.x versions were declared stable as of 2.0.3." =dev-ruby/ruby-oci-2.0.3
=dev-ruby/ruby-oci8-2.0.3
Actually, since the current patch 2.0.6 is a bugfix-level release, 2.0.6 is more stable than 2.0.3. If it could be stabilized, that'd be better.
If we have to wait a few more weeks or a month for 2.0.6 to be stabilized, no big deal. We've been waiting 2 years anyway.
this package requires: dev-db/oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.3-r1 dev-db/oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.3 Those packages need a registration to fetch them. Someone have an easy way or have already fetch them?
I think the oracle-instantclient-basic ebuild has an old URL for downloading the fetch-restriction files. If you go to this URL, you just need to click the Accept button. No registration required, as far as I can tell: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html As you can see, the current Gentoo stable for oracle-instantclient-basic is rather old. IMHO, all of the oracle ebuilds should be updated and stabilized for oracle 11.2.
(In reply to comment #5) > I think the oracle-instantclient-basic ebuild has an old URL for downloading > the fetch-restriction files. > > If you go to this URL, you just need to click the Accept button. No > registration required, as far as I can tell: > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html I gone in the same page, and it points to: https://login.oracle.com/mysso/signon.jsp > As you can see, the current Gentoo stable for oracle-instantclient-basic is > rather old. IMHO, all of the oracle ebuilds should be updated and stabilized > for oracle 11.2. feel free to request stabilization
Okay, I've created bug 397571 to stabilize oracle-instantclient-* 11.2. Thanks. You can create a free Oracle login, or get the maintainer of oracle-instantclient-basic (Tobias Scherbaum) to help, or I could provide the files to you by other means. Regardless, if you do not have an Oracle Database to test with, you likely can't test the ruby-oci8 anyway. For what it's worth, I have been using ruby-oci8-2.0.6 with oracle-instantclient-11.2.0.2 in production on both x86 and amd64 architectures for several months now and it has been just fine.
amd64 stable
x86 stable. Closing.
