Add Oracle DB libraries

[mciupak]

Following home-assistant/core#50090 I would like to add cx_oracle and Oracle Instant Client libraries to docker image to be able to use recorder with Oracle DB out of the box.

[pvizeli]

I vote against this contribution:

• Licence issue
• Binary blobs

If Oracle does his stuff opensource and releases an official alpine package, we can speak about it.

[frenck]

I agree on not adding it. I was looking at the same.

It will also add 30+ megabytes to every image we ship, while the effective use might be considered fairly minimal.

[mciupak]

Understood, fair enough, then I got two ideas/questions:

1. Can we add cx_oracle at least? Instant Client libraries are needed to access cloud based DB instances, but local instances does not require it and can be handled by sqlalchemy with cx_oracle only.
2. Can we think about kind of additional secondary set of base image with Oracle binaries included anyhow?

[balloob]

I also agree on not adding it.

Local Oracle databases… if people pay for a DB like that, they can maintain their own images. Not something we want to maintain.

[pvizeli]

Using the python package is fine for me

[ryansun96]

I also agree on not adding it.

Local Oracle databases… if people pay for a DB like that, they can maintain their own images. Not something we want to maintain.

@balloob Actually Oracle now offers (always) free database instances in their oracle cloud free tier with a 20GB storage quota. So folks (including me) who want to use Oracle with their HA might not necessarily be big corporations...

[balloob]

See the activity entry right above your comment. It's been added.

[ryansun96]

I'm talking about client libraries.

[pvizeli]

We only allow install open-source packages. No way to add this client and no plan to make different images