FreeTDS Development Group

[Stefan Bodewig <bodewig AT bost.de>]

>>>>> "CS" == Craig Spannring <Craig.Spannring AT aedinc.net> writes:

 CS> Stefan Bodewig writes:

 >> works on Linux as well as on Linux

looks interesting. 

What I wanted to say was "Linux as well as on Windows", but you knew
that.

 CS> I've considered Ant, but I don't really like the idea of having
 CS> to bundle another application with the driver.

I understand - I've not thought about bundling Ant either. I think we
are dealing with at least two types of users.

Those who only want to use the JDBC driver will probably prefer a
binary snapshot - a JAR file containing the JDBC 1.0 and the 2.0
classes - over sources anyway. Some of them might not even have make
installed but this may be a small minority.

Those who really want to look at the sources should consider
themselves serious Java developers and have Ant installed anyway - do
I need a smiley here?

The point I wanted to make is that you shouldn't consider messy
Makefiles a bug of the driver but the result of two more or less
incompatible tools, Java and make. And the only "bugfix" I could offer
would be to switch to another build tool.

Stefan