FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, "Harrington, Paul" <Paul-Harrington AT deshaw.com>
wrote:
> 
> When are you guys planning on a release? Is there anything that we can
> do to help you torwards it?

We're planning one.  Really.  This year, for sure.  There was a thread
here a month ago called "status" that reviews our state of affairs.  

If you could get Bill Thompson to actually submit that wonderful ct-lib
patch of his, that would be a step in the right direction.  

Documentation.  Our ODBC documentation needs updating.  It really needs an
editor-in-chief, someone whose first language is English and whose second
language is ODBC.  But at the very least it should explain about the
autodetection features.  It's still not easy enough to figure out what to
do to set up a new servername in odbc.ini and freetds.conf.  We get a
batch of questions about that after every release.  Which is good and bad,
if you see what I mean.  

We need a good test harness for UTF-8 testing.  

We need compilations (and testing) under big-endian and especially 64-bit
systems.  Almost everyone it seems is using i386 these days, and in a
project like this, alignment assumptions have a way of creeping in.  

I'm not sure what would persuade me to fix the autoconf issues, but that's
clearly on my todo, too.  

--jkl