[CASSANDRA-17247] Remove unused dependencies from pylib/requirements.txt

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.2, 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: CQL/Interpreter
• Bug Category: Code
• Severity: Low
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All
• Since Version: NA

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/8c8d9b8e5743825c47c7743c7bbfd062533e1602

Test and Documentation Plan

run CI

• Assignee: Brad Schoening
• Reporter: Brad Schoening

Authors

Brad Schoening

Reviewers

Berenguer Blasi, Brandon Williams

• Created: 09/Jan/22 16:34
• Updated: 27/May/22 19:24
• Resolved: 20/Jan/22 16:04

Description

The dependency 'cql' appears to be obsolete in requirements.txt and is not imported by the python code.

The package 'cql' was last updated in 2012 and has been deprecated by its authors

     https://pypi.org/project/cql    (see release history)

     A DB-API 2.0 compliant client library for Cassandra/CQL

     This driver has been deprecated. Please use python-driver https://github.com/datastax/python-driver instead.

    above from homepage at  https://code.google.com/archive/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-dbapi2