FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

Hi James,

We should probably change the text under section 1.1 to rephrase it as
'The current CLIs are DB-Lib and CT-Lib as defined by Sybase and ODBC'
as the ODBC driver is no longer 'rudimentary'.

Under section 1.2, we may want to say no to OpenServer but point out that
libtdssrv will do the trick for some applications.

Somewhere, maybe section 1.3, we need to add a comment about when people
may want to use TDS 7, even though we say it is less stable than 4.2

Section 1.6 is way out of date, an import of the AUTHORS file seems to be
in order.

You may want to look at the number on section 1.8, people may be trying to
unsubscribe you ;-)

Section 3.1-3 as a whole probably needs to refer to the UG, as there are
some inacuracies here. 3.4 onwards makes sense here though.

Section 6 looks great.  Good job!

The other thing is we probably should say something about the connection
pooling stuff...don't know where though.

Brian

On Tue, 1 May 2001, James K. Lowden wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have updated the FAQ.  Several contributions were included and I hope
> it's closer to right, now.  In case I forgot (and even if I didn't),
> thanks to those of you who sent me faqpatches.
> 
> I'm trying to make the User Guide a stand-alone document, something that
> anyone can rely on to use FreeTDS without reading the list archives or
> the FAQ.  The FAQ will be reduced to a list of headlines that help
> someone decide what FreeTDS is all about, where it's at, and what's
> involved.
> 
> I think we need a place on the web site for a bug database of sorts.  I
> read the list pretty frequently, but I for one can't keep track of the
> status of, say, text fields with MS SQL.  I was tempted to add that to
> the FAQ or UG, but I think documentation of what *doesn't* work should
> be (if it may be so called) less formal.
> 
> There is some interest in revamping the whole site, HTML-wise.  If
> you're interested in playing that game, let me know and I'll put you in
> touch.
> 
> Thanks for all your favorite pairs.  I'm making small
> improvements/corrections to the UG, and an updated total count will be
> included in it.
> 
> One last acknowledgement.  While I don't mind being seen (or not) as the
> guy doing the documentation, I want to say publicly that while perhaps
> half the *words* in the User Guide are mine, most of the *information*
> came from Brian Bruns.  Without him, there would be neither FreeTDS nor
> its UG.
> 
> As always, comments suggestions complaints additions corrections
> contributions naturally welcome.
> 
> --jkl
> 
> 
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