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  • From: "Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>
  • To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] schedule for release of 0.62?
  • Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:04:17 +0100

Hi,

> 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.

:-) point taken...

I've been away on business for a while, I'll submit this week.

Bill




> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden [SMTP:jklowden AT schemamania.org]
> Sent: 22 October 2003 03:32
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] schedule for release of 0.62?
>
> 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
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