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  • From: "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: rc4 is ready, shall we call it 0.60?
  • Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:05:46 -0400



Looks great. do you have a freshmeat account so i can add you as an admin
to that for announcement purposes??

Brian

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:07:19 -0400, "Brian Bruns" <camber AT ais.org> wrote:
> > ... it works on AIX and (of course) Linux. However, setting TDSVER to
> > 4.2 on Sybase 12.5 stack traced and locked up the server....bad, bad,
> > bad!
> >
> > We need to include a *HUGE* warning about this one. Otherwise, it looks
> > good.
> > Do you want to do a rc5, or just add the text and promote it?
>
> I say it's a go. I will update the readme and rename the archive. I will
> not rebuild or re-tar it. See huge warning attached.
>
> Idea for next time: send mail to root@localhost, attaching any special
> announcements. Couldn't hurt.
>
> Regards,
>
> --jkl
>
> <top of README.0.60>
> ********************************
> ** Warning regarding Sybase 12.5! **
> ********************************
>
> Do Not Use FreeTDS 0.60 with TDS version 4.2 to connect to Sybase 12.5.
> Please!
>
> While we don't like to put the bad news first, neither do we want you to
> hurt your server. Late in the release cycle, we found that our
> implementation of TDS 4.2 gives Sybase 12.5 a bad case of heartburn. In
> short: it crashed the server.
>
> We don't know what it is about our version of TDS 4.2 that Sybase 12.5
> doesn't like, and we'll be looking closely at that question. But in the
> meanwhile, until we can find the problem and fix it, please don't use that
> combination. Unless you want to help us test it, that is.
>
> FreeTDS 0.60 works fine with Sybase 12.5 if you use TDS version 5.0.
>
> If you are using Sybase 12.5 and anything above is not clear to you,
> please see the User Guide. If it is still not clear after that, please
> write to the FreeTDS mailing list. We'd rather answer your questions
> while your server is still running.
>
> Thank you. We return now to your regularly scheduled README, already in
> progress.
>
> New location of installed files!
> ================================
> [etc.]
> <end readme>




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