FreeTDS Development Group

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

All, 

I wondered how complete is FreeTDS's implementation of the APIs as specified
by the vendors.  I added some perl to doc/api_status.txt, to print out the
status in a format suitable for loading to the database, and then ran a few
queries.   I thought you might be interested in the results.  

1> select name, Total, OK, ToDo, [Done%] from vapi
2> select section, Total, OK, ToDo, [Done%] from vapisection where name =
'dblib'
3> go
 name            Total       OK          ToDo        Done%
 --------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
 ctlib                    90          33          57          36
 dblib                   183         114          69          62
 odbc                     76          23          53          30

(3 rows affected)
 section         Total       OK          ToDo        Done%
 --------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
 bcp                      14          13           1          92
 browse                   11           1          10           9
 core                    130          85          45          65
 cursor                    9           0           9           0
 procedure                11          10           1          90
 text                      8           5           3          62

(6 rows affected)

There are 349 functions identified in api_status.txt, of which 170 are
marked "OK".  That puts us about halfway done, with db-lib way out in front.


Obviously, these numbers don't measure quality i.e., clarity, flexibility,
robustness, portability, etc., all of which have seen a lot of attention
this past year.  It might be interesting, though, to take another snapshot
next year and see how we're doing.  

--jkl



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