FreeTDS Development Group

[richard AT iguana.co.nz]

> It's not a problem with TDS 4.2 as the server is supposed to do endian
> conversion, but with TDS 7.0 there does not seem to be a way to specify
> the endianess of the client.  So, I assume the client is responsible for
> dealing with it (the server always sends little endian). 
> 
> BTW glib has endian conversion functions and as glib is being used in the
> ODBC driver, does anyone mind whether we make glib a prerequisite?
> Probably affects the sparc folks more than anybody.

Endian conversion is hardly a major thing, unless there are a large number
of features of glib which you think would be useful I'd be inclined not to
require it for the sake of those who don't have glib support, on the other
hand, I haven't looked that way recently, what is glib pretty much
cross-platform now? I know it was getting very close last time.

Richard