Hi Phillip,
I am not involved in the efforts to produce the RPython version of
cx_Oracle, and have little knowledge of its maturity and compatibility.
That said, I worked on a ctypes-based version of cx_Oracle, specifically
tested with PyPy.
It has a very good percentage of tests passing from the
Building PyPy with cx_Oracle fails. I am using Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 64-bit
with Oracle 11.2. Build command is: python translate.py -Ojit
targetpypystandalone.py --withmod-oracle.
Below is the traceback:
[Timer] Timings:
[Timer] annotate --- 1834.3 s
[Timer] rtype_lltype