FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

All (and especially Freddy), 

0.61rc1 was branched in CVS tonight, and a tarball posted on ibiblio at
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/current/freetds-0.61rc1.tgz 
You will also find in that directory the relase announcement, attached.  

[And there was much rejoicing.]

I did not send messages to the usual suspects for two reasons.  First, atm
I can't access our website to update the news and links.  Second, it gives
Steve and Freddy a change to put together their packages.  When I can
update the website, I'll send the announcement to:

        freshmeat
        comp.os.linux.announce
        comp.databases.sybase
        comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
        linuxpr.com

I think it would be nice, but not a requirement, if the two recent Perl
interactions could be resolved.  If no one wants to fix them in the next
few days, we can just update TODO and/or BUGS.

There's some seriously good work in 0.61, many important improvements. 
There is much to be proud of, and your names live on in the change log:

$ perl -n'
exit if /^Wed Sep 11/; 
next unless /\@/;
@a = split; $who{@a[-1]}++; 
END 
{ 
        foreach (sort keys %who) {
          printf "%-30s\t$who{$_}\n", qq/$_:/ if /\@/;
        } 
}' ChangeLog |sort -rn -k2
<freddy77 AT angelfire.com>:       332
<Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>: 213
<camber AT ais.org>:               59
<jklowden AT schemamania.org>:     57
<quozl AT us.netrek.org>:          24
<vorlon AT netexpress.net>:        13
<pkleef AT openlinksw.com>:        6
<mark AT lilback.com>:             4
<vklimk AT yahoo.com>:             3
<brothert AT mzv.net>:             3
<laishev AT mail.dls.net>:         2
Magnus.Ahl AT infogate.se:         1
<pwillia6 AT csc.com.au>:          1
<ihermit2 AT yahoo.com>:           1

It figures.  Brian outdoes me, even in retirement.  

I'm looking forward to 0.62, too.  Bill promises a revamped ct-lib; Steve
wants to zap locale.conf; Frediano continues to pound away on ODBC.  I'm
going to move the website into CVS, add doxygen output to the nightly
build process, and plow the compile farm.  Unless I miss my guess, FreeTDS
0.62 will work with Star Office and run on VMS, albeit not at the same
time.  

--jkl

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