[Oscailt] Problems with Oscailt+Windows

[chekov]

Hi Ant,

I responded to spleen last night, but forgot to copy it to the list - I've done 
that now.  Anyway, the solution below is exactly right, but it's probably 
better, for the moment, to just turn off mysql strict mode.

Chekov

> I was able to get around this problem by making a few small edits to the
> objects/installdatabase.inc file: For each field with a data type of
> text (or mediumtext), I removed the default value when the table was
> being created. e.g in line 108 I changed it from
> story_summary text NOT NULL default ''
> to
> story_summary text NOT NULL
> 
>>From what I've read in the bug report above, this should be safe enough
> but I'm no expert on Oscailt and I don't have time to test these edits
> and can't offer any guarantees that this won't cause further problems.
> However some of the PHP coders on this list will probably know more
> about this.
>