FreeTDS Development Group

[Norman Palardy <palardyn AT mac.com>]

Sort of.
I'm glad to have access to a project like this and the outcomes it can 
produce.

But, I have to admit that as someone who only wants to use the resulting 
products it's been a bit frustrating trying to discern what I need to do 
to get an install going on my particular environment.

I will probably never contribute anything in the way of source code for 
FreeTDS or SQSH. Not because I can't code; because that's not how I want 
to be able to use it.

If I could simply grab a binary that would install and run on my set up 
I would be absolutely ecstatic. Hell, I'd pay for it !!!

But I must admit that I am quite impressed with the range of ports that 
FreeTDS has available.
Can't say for SQSH because I haven't dowloaded it ... yet. Just about to 
do that

On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 10:20  AM, Lowden, James K wrote:

> > i can verify that ASE 12 works using FreeTDS 0.52.
> > i connected from a BeOS PC and also from a Solaris 2.51 server.
> > ASE 12.0 was running on an ultra-sparc on Solaris 2.7
> > In fact i have a FreeTDS and SQSH bundle for BeOS which works very 
> > well.
>
> I can't help but be impressed by this.
>
> One measure of software design is surely flexibility: the ability to be
> used/adapated in ways the designer never intended.
>
> On a scale of 0 to 1, what do you think the probability is that:
>
> 1.      Scott Gray intended SQSH to work on BeOS?
> and
> 2.      Brian Bruns intended FreeTDS to connect SQSH on BeOS to a future
> version of Sybase?
>
> I vote: 0.  Sybase also deserves some credit for not breaking the 
> protocol.
> Chalk up one for open collaboration.
>
> Did anyone else have the same reaction?
>
> --jkl
>
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