FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

Well since that last release went so badly I figured we'd do a pre-release
ala Linux. So, 0.41pre1 is on metalab,
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/freetds-0.41pre1.tar.gz
(whew!). So, try it out and let me know. All the unittests are running
correctly for me on three different platforms, so if someone else could
try t0005 and t0006 especially it might help figure out the reported
problems.  On other fronts, I don't know if Solaris is working yet or not,
but there's still some time.

I added support for numeric and decimal types to the TDS layer, however,
converting these to strings and such is not done.  If anyone knows an
algorithm to convert large integers (eg larger than the machine size) to
a string, it would be very helpful. The only way I know of is to do array
multiplication, which would be slow. I'm sure there is a math trick out
there somewhere to do it.

Also, I'd like to know what people want to see in 0.50  
My personal list is:

Definitely
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Full numeric and decimal support for dblib and ctlib
Fix money types (special cases of numeric)
DBD::Sybase over ctlib working
Bulk copy working for dblib

Maybe
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Bulk copy for ctlib
Better ODBC support
PHP3 ct-sybase module working

Not likely
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ODBC working with iODBC driver manager

Other Future Releases
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RPC
Text and Image datatypes

Cheers,

Brian