[freetds] TODO list reviewed

James K. Lowden jklowden at schemamania.org
Thu Jan 13 08:05:06 EST 2005


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 07:35:51 -0500, Brian Bruns <brian.bruns at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> > . Rename TDS 8.0 to TDS 7.1, to be consistent with Microsoft's name
> > 
> > ** Are you sure ?? I never see TDS 7.1 on MS docs.
> 
> The login packet is marked with 0x80, so I think 8.0 is a safe name to
> call it.  I've never seen the name 7.1.
> 
> Microsoft itself seems to reference 8.0
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bldgapps/ba_highprog_56pc.asp

I'm sure I saw 7.1 used, but the point is moot now.  We've been calling it
8.0 for so long, any change in nomenclature would only lead to confusion. 


--jkl



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