FreeTDS Development Group

[Bob Kline <bkline AT rksystems.com>]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Scott C. Gray wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know who takes primary ownership for the 'dblib' code
> (probably Brian, but I figured it is quickly to ask the whole list).
> 
> I ask, because I would like to begin some work that would drastically
> overhaul the TDS layer of freeTDS in order to better support all of
> the features of CT-Lib (in particular, cursors, more properties, etc.)
> Unfortunately, in order to do this implementation it will require
> some serious re-working of the dblib libraries. Actually, it'll require
> a major overhaul of ct-lib as well, but I am willing to take that
> task on.
> 
> I have already re-worked most of the guts of the tds library to support
> cancels (it was a _lot_ more difficult than I ever expected)...I 
> haven't checked my changes in yet..hopefully soon.  I am making the
> necessary changes to db-lib and ct-lib to support the new changes,
> but considering that I really only need ct-lib to work for my 
> selfish purposes, I can't afford to continue this effort indefinitely.
> 
> If I had my druthers, what I would really like to see is for
> the db-lib layer to be implemented on top of the ct-lib layer.
> This would actually by pretty nice because you could use it 
> on top of Sybase's ct-lib as well.
> 

I'm not sure about the layering of dblib over ctlib, but filling in the
gaps for ctlib would be most welcome, if nothing else because that's
what the Perl module sits on top of, and ctlib has been something of a
stepchild in the freeTDS project up to now.

-- 
Bob Kline
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