FreeTDS Development Group

[Andreas Tille <tillea AT rki.de>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Craig Spannring wrote:

>  > Except this kind of "documentation-is-just-for-stupid-beginner-and-
>  > not-for-thes-knowledged-hacker-who-can-easily-compare-filesize-and-date"
>  > issue the JDBC driver programmers did a fine job and it worked great
>  > for me without problems.  No code related bugs against the driver in
>  > the Debian bug track system.
> 
> More accurately would be "this-driver-is-pre-beta-code-and-
> if-you-are-a-beginner-that-can't-figure-out-how-to-compare-
> file-size-and-dates-you-probably-should-find-a-more-mature-
> driver"
> 
> That said, a number of beginners have used it with success.  I'm just
> saying that if you can't read the source code the driver is probably a
> little less mature than you would like.
I count correct versioning as an documentation issue and my intend was
that different files have to become different names.  It is *because*
they are used succesfully also by beginners, we *have to* inform them
about new file-versions.  The README file has to contain a warning about
the snapshot state in general and different snapshots have to get
different names (snapshot-1, snapshot-2, ... or anything else to make
clear the difference).

Anyway thanks for the fine work with the JDBC-driver

            Andreas.