FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefan Bodewig <bodewig AT bost.de>]

[keeping the rather long lists of recipicients for the moment ...]

>>>>> "BK" == Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com> writes:

 BK> Shall I send them to you directly or post them here (the context
 BK> diffs weigh in at about 35K, I believe)?

If they are ready to be integrated you can send them here, if you want
to work on them before they get commited feel free to send them to me
directly.

 BK> Do we need Craig to coordinate modifications to the base code

First I really hope we have Craig's consent on this. He's been doing a
wonderful job with this project so far and it is a pity that his time
seems to be too limited at the moment.

During the past two months I've never seen anybody commit to the CVS
repository apart from Craig, I don't know whether he's the only one
with write access or if there are other (now silent) contributers
reading this list.

 BK> I thought about something along those lines (I don't necessarily
 BK> mind the idea of passing the information in the URL), but I
 BK> wasn't happy with the implication in that particular syntax about
 BK> the version of the DBMS, which isn't always tied to the version
 BK> of TDS used/supported (SQL Server 6.x speaks TDS 4.2, for
 BK> example): 

Yes, you are right. I guess nobody using SQL Server 6.x would even
understand why there should be a 42 in the URL.

The JDBC spec
<URL:http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jdbc/spec/jdbc-spec.frame6.html>
suggests a syntax like

jdbc:freetds:sqlserver://servername/database;tds=7.0

like it is used for the JDBC-ODBC bridge. I know Informix also uses
the ;key=value;... approach. Maybe we should follow this route?

Stefan