FreeTDS Development Group

[Smita Elayath <smita.elayath AT mios.com>]

sorry...I think u have send me a wrong mail...I did never ask for an ODBC
driver...I had asked for a JDBC driver...Please check it again

smita

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Langasek [mailto:vorlon AT netexpress.net]
Sent: 09 October 2001 16:52
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] RE: ODBC Driver


Ack, the things I miss by skimming my email...

Peter,

> I have offered to volunteer my time to enhance the FreeTDS ODBC driver
> but I have not been able to get CVS access thus far. I am wondering if
> my help is not needed or of the people who control access to the CVS are
> just too busy or if I somehow deleted some response by mistake?

> I founded the unixODBC project and I remain a regular contributor to
> that project. I am very familair with the ODBC specification. I have
> also created, and continue to develop, a Data Architecting tool (see sig
> at end of email).

> I have offered to work on the FreeTDS ODBC driver on two occasions but
> it seems that it is not considered important? Or that I am otherwise not
> needed?

> My time is somewhat precious (at least I like to think it is <grin>) and
> 'windows of opportunity' to do volunteer work come and go quite quickly.

> I must admit, that my desire to improve the FreeTDS ODBC driver is
> founded in the benefit to unixODBC and Data Architect users but as it is
> open source... any improvements are availible to everyone.

> So please consider this, final, request to volunteer my time to this
> project.

There is definitely a lot of work to be done on the FreeTDS ODBC driver, and
although I have no formal affiliation with the FreeTDS project (that's
really
Brian's baby), I can say the ODBC driver is important to me and I would
welcome any improvements anyone is willing to make to the code.

Would you like me to start feeding you reports of bugs in the ODBC driver,
or
do you have your own list of bugs that you want to see fixed? :)

WRT CVS access...  my understanding is that the CVS repository is not
directly
under the control of the FreeTDS developers, which naturally leads to more
admin overhead any time changes need to be made.  I'm thankful at least for
the donation of CVS space, in spite of the occasional glitches.

Regards,
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer


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