FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il dom, 2002-10-27 alle 05:37, Daniel Morgan ha scritto:
> Take a look at the TDS providers in Mono at
> http://www.go-mono.com/ado-net.html
> 
> Tim Coleman is creating 3 providers in pure C# in Mono:

Why C# ? .NET is not an independent language? Why not compiling C for
libtds using FreeTDS code and add his library?

I don't understand why they do not write a backend for GCC... so I can
compiler Fortram to .NET or .NET to native... Perhaps too complex...

> 1. Mono.Data.TdsClient for TDS 4.2 (older Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server
> databases)
> 2. Mono.Data.SybaseClient for TDS 5.0 (newer Sybase)
> 3. Mono.Data.SqlClient for TDS 7.0 (Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000)
> 

There are no so many difference...

> The TDS ADO.NET providers can connect and execute DML statements now.  Tim
> is working on retrieving data from queries now using a Data Reader.
> 
> The TDS functionality is referencing two open source projects:
> FreeTDS at http://www.freetds.org/
> jTDS at http://jtds.sf.net/
> 
> Mono works on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and possibly others...
> 
> Would you like to help Tim with the TDS providers in Mono?
> 

I think the best think is a contribution. If Tim or other people join to
our mailing list we will happy to help them (and perhaps they can help
us :) ).

freddy77