FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Bill Thompson [mailto:thompbil AT exchange.uk.ml.com]
> Sent: July 18, 2002 11:15 AM
> 
> I reckon another couple of days work on this next week and 
> we'll be all
> done and dusted. If you could hold off applying any patches 
> to convert.c
> and dbconvert and cs_convert, it should make it a lot easier 
> to integrate my patches when they're ready.

This is wonderful news, Bill, thanks for the update.  I'll be offline myself
until August, so your work will probably be done while I'm away. <pout>   

You had said you were putting off generating error messages.  Where does
that stand?  Seems to me you needed socket plumbing changes from Brian to do
it right?  

I think the autoconf macro is not hard to add later.  Basically, we can wrap
your "long long" uses inside a HAVE_LONG_LONG test in the header file, and
in convert.c (or whatever) we can say, approximately:

#if ! HAVE_LONG_LONG
        [call error message handler]
        return FALSE;
#endif

[We could do more, but there are simple remedies (use GNU, cast to float in
SQL).]

I think HAVE_LONG_LONG etc. should go into the release, but is easy to apply
after your fundamental, get-it-working work is in CVS.  

> I'm off to sunny Seville!

The one in Spain?  Sounds nice, running with the bulls in a bear market.  

--jkl