Re: Proposing the removal of Oracle from the Django supported backend databases

2023-08-03 Thread Christopher Jones
On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 6:26 PM Paolo Melchiorre wrote: > Hi all, > I wanted to share the frustration of seeing yet another great new ORM > feature blocked due to Oracle compatibility: > https://github.com/django/django/pull/16417 > > In the past, I too have had to put a lot of effort trying to ma

Re: Supporting Oracle's renamed cx_Oracle driver in Django

2022-06-08 Thread Christopher Jones
On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 7:36:38 PM UTC+10 f.apo...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 11:30:46 AM UTC+2 christopher@gmail.com > wrote: > >> The question is how to add support cleanly so that both names are >> supported in 4.1? Is there a preference? Particul

Re: Supporting Oracle's renamed cx_Oracle driver in Django

2022-06-07 Thread Christopher Jones
> I agree with Florian, I'd prefer adding support for *python-oracledb* in Django 4.1 and immediately deprecate using *cx_Oracle *(will be removed in Django 5.0). That sounds fair. The cx_Oracle namespace won't have any substantive changes; maybe some new wheels for Python 3.11, and any critic

Supporting Oracle's renamed cx_Oracle driver in Django

2022-05-27 Thread Christopher Jones
A new, major Python cx_Oracle driver release is available and it comes with a brand new name: *python-oracledb* . At run time, the module name of the p