FreeTDS Development Group

[Norman Palardy <palardyn AT mac.com>]

On Thursday, October 18, 2001, at 12:43  AM, James Cameron wrote:

> > Where the heck the user guide was as neither the README nor INSTALL 
> > tell
> > you where it is, and only a fairly thorough read through the FAQS will
> > tell you where it is.
>
> No, it is also a news item on the main page of http://freetds.org/ ...
> the second item.  Easy to miss; maybe we need a 'Documentation' icon
> down the left hand side of the page.  Maybe we also need a link to it
> from the 'Download' page as you said.  (I'm not sure who has
> responsibility for the web site yet, I'm still learning.)

News ? .... not sure why I would look there
Come to think of it I didn't because it didn't make sense

> > MAC OS X
>
> I'm afraid I cannot help with that platform.  Perhaps it is represented
> on the SourceForge compile farm.  If so, maybe I could do a build and
> document it.

They just added them

> > Servers are on a variety of DEC Alpha's, [...]
>
> Although I can help with them.  ;-)

4100's 8200's ... and I think we've got ES 40's

> > Personally, I think the best way to package this is to look at it from
> > the end consumers point of view.
>
> FreeTDS is a software integration product for use by software
> engineers.  It is packaged in binary for Red Hat Linux and Debian
> GNU/Linux systems, among others, and so can be transparently loaded onto
> the end consumers system in order to satisfy library dependencies.  So
> far, I'm happy with the packaging, though I can see it can be improved.

Integration yes.
But, being the "integrator" I still don't need or want to have to 
rebuild it
I guess I'd like to see it as simple as Sybase or Oracle's installs 
which are binary only (for other reasons) but that when installed are 
ready to roll (except maybe seting LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some other 
environment variable)

> I suspect your main issue is the rare platform (for which we have not
> made binary packages), and the other issue is the learning curve.  ;-)

Rare maybe.
But, the beginning of this thread was actually someone else who also was 
looking for clearer installation / setup instructions.