FreeTDS Development Group

[Peter Harvey <pharvey AT codebydesign.com>]

> As we discussed in this forum a few weeks ago, some driver managers
> rely exclusively (and erroneously) on link-time information about
> what functions are available in the driver.  IIRC, iODBC falls in
> this category and unixODBC does not.  Since iODBC has not, as far as
> I know, been ported to VMS, and unixODBC does not have the problem,
> the main advantage to limiting the export list doesn't seem overly
> compelling.  Are there other advantages?


I am all for the standard whenever it makes sense and sometimes - even 
when it does not (i.e. just because it can be relied upon to perform a 
certian way). My 2 cents.

Peter