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  • From: "Steve Etchelecu" <setchele AT home.com>
  • To: freetds
  • Subject: Re: is dblib needed?
  • Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 3:3:13


On 06/29/98, "Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.umcc.umich.edu>" wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Gregg Jensen wrote:
>
> > I was just curious to know if there should be a priority of getting ctlib
> > implemented over dblib? I have been adding some stuff to the tds4.2
> > version of the dblib and it still has a long way to go, although it can do
> > a bit of the basic stuff. But, if most people will want to use ctlib,
> > then
> > it might be better to focus attention on it rather then dblib. Any
> > opinions?
> >
> > Gregg Jensen
> > greggj AT savvis.com
> >
> I would think that dblib would be most important since ctlib is offered by
> Sybase. It has some problems (it was put out as a.out format and
> converted to elf, so no dynamic loading), but it is a good solution for
> intel peoples. DEC, Sparc, PowerPC and others are currently out of luck.
>
> I'm working on some ctlib stuff just to set something up in case some one
> wants/needs to get it working...So far, it can log in and submit a query
> but ct_results/ct_fetch isn't implemented yet. I need to upload my latest
> changes though. Anyway, shouldn't be that long until we have a working
> ctlib, but it (and odbc) are probably lower priority. (or maybe I just
> like programming dblib better :)
>
> Brian
> camber AT ais.org

Well, I vote for dblib primarily because it has a better chance of working
with both Sybase and MSSQLServer...but then I'm not doing the work, just
benefitting from it.

Just my 2cents...
Steve Etchelecu




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