FreeTDS Development Group

["Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>]

> Brian, 
> 
> I have uploaded rc4 to ibiblio.  Frediano and I chatted.  I fixed up some
> local cvs issues I had.  He tested "rc3.99"; rc4 has an updated spec file.
>  All else is as it was, after this morning's early retagging.  

Cool, let me test on AIX et al.
 
> I'd like to call this the real thing, and I'd like you to have a looksee
> first.  
> 
> Points:
> 
> 1.    The tarball unfolds into "freetds-0.60", not freetds.  This is std
> "make dist" behavior, so it shouldn't go over too hard.  

Good, that was one problem with rc3.
 
> 2.    I will upload and announce to sf.  Where do you normally send
> submissions?  

I send to freshmeat, comp.os.linux.announce, comp.databases.sybase
comp.databases.ms-sqlserver, linuxpr.com, ummm....did i miss anything?

> 3.    I don't know much about linux distros and what they include.  Is there
> an easy way to find out (like asking here), or should I just say, um, RH,
> debian, and many others?

 
> 4.    I will take the advice to talk about text/image datatype handling.  I
> think we handle these fine, now, except for converting them (to anything
> except character types), and bcp of text types does not work.  
>
> 5.    I will say that RPMs will be made available on ibiblio, too.  

Coolness.
 
> Anything I've overlooked?  I'll post the announcement here, too, prior to
> wandering around the internet with it.  

Update the news item on the web site and all that.

> --jkl

Will right back in a few with results.

Brian