Remove cx-Oracle import test #271
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`//test:cx_oracle_darwin_build_test` just ensures that cx-Oracle is importable and defines a `__version__` attribute. The test name implies that the build process for cx-Oracle itself - specifically on Darwin - is what matters in this test, although it's not clear why: the test predates Please's plugin architecture, and was inherited from the main Please repo. cx-Oracle has been abandoned since 2022 [1] and hasn't had a new version published on PyPI since 2021 [2]. The final version only has pre-built wheels available for Python <= 3.10 manylinux SOABIs, so pip has to build it from source for the vast majority of SOABIs. It's not clear why this is a price worth paying any more, so remove it (and the test that depends on it). [1] https://oracle.github.io/python-cx_Oracle/ [2] https://pypi.org/project/cx-Oracle/8.3.0/
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//test:cx_oracle_darwin_build_testjust ensures that cx-Oracle is importable and defines a__version__attribute. The test name implies that the build process for cx-Oracle itself - specifically on Darwin - is what matters in this test, although it's not clear why: the test predates Please's plugin architecture, and was inherited from the main Please repo.cx-Oracle has been abandoned since 2022 [1] and hasn't had a new version published on PyPI since 2021 [2]. The final version only has pre-built wheels available for Python <= 3.10 manylinux SOABIs, so pip has to build it from source for the vast majority of SOABIs. It's not clear why this is a price worth paying any more, so remove it (and the test that depends on it).
[1] https://oracle.github.io/python-cx_Oracle/
[2] https://pypi.org/project/cx-Oracle/8.3.0/