ending support for Oracle 11.2?

[Tim Graham]

Oracle's extended support for 11.2 ends Dec 2020. We don't currently have testing on the CI servers for 11.2, and I think the Developer Days VM for 11.2 is no longer available from Oracle (I have a local copy that I've used for testing). Making the GIS tests work on Oracle 11.2 and Oracle 12 is causing some non-trivial work, so I wanted to ask if it's worthwhile.

Perhaps dropping 11.2 support after Django 1.11 would be okay. Django 1.11 will be supported until April 2020 which almost reaches Oracle's Dec 2020 date.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/7704 - Removed unneeded Oracle workaround in GISFunctionsTests.test_num_points (doesn't work on 11.2)
https://github.com/django/django/pull/7672 - Some back and forth was needed here to find an SRID that works on Oracle 11.2 and 12
https://github.com/django/django/pull/7695#discussion_r92675976 - Two existing GIS test failures with Oracle 11.2

[Jani Tiainen]

My vote would be +1 for dropping support for 11.2 after Django 1.11 since it would fit quite nicely on schedule of Oracle extended support.

What comes to those listed issues I think they should work on all supported versions (it's still ~3 years until 11.2 is decommissioned).

SRIDs are something that may cause troubles but that's more like a thing that Oracle GeoDjango user should know what to use and how to handle it so I wouldn't worry too much about them.

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