[freetds] ctlib support from sybase
Mark J. Lilback
mark at lilback.com
Wed Dec 18 14:41:24 EST 2002
Since Sybase was released for Mac OS X, I've been working closely
with Sybase. They've just informed me that they have been using
FreeTDS for some internal work, modifying ctlib to:
a) support some of the newer TDS tokens that have been introduced
with ASE 12.5;
b) fix some datatype handling issues (binary);
c) update the connection capability exchange to let the server know
that this client can handle new tokens possible with ASE 12.5;
d) optional support for REAL Basic;
e) a ctlib property to enable tds logging.
They've meant to contribute it back to the project, but have been
lacking the time. However, they've sent me a tarball of their
changes. The last mod on the included ChangeLog is "Tue Oct 15
09:37:03 EDT 2002", so the code isn't that far behind (I was worried
it might be based on 0.53).
So, who feels like going over their code changes?
Doing a grep for the comment signature they used, there are 89
changes. I could possibly do it next week, but I have a feeling there
are others out there who could get to it much faster.
Also, they found an undocumented way to login with ctlib without
having an entry in the interfaces file (which they plan to document
in the future). I'll be adding support for that to ctlib.
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