FreeTDS Development Group

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

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:55:54 +0800 (CST), Keith Mok <ek9852 AT yahoo.com.hk>
wrote:
> 
> I am a software programmer who wants to contribute to FreeTDS. 

Welcome to the project, Keith.  

>  Currently I have already add WinCE Pocket PC 2002 support to FreeTDS
>  V0.61.2. However I am using sqlxxx.h from M$. Do you know if there is
>  any substitution ? 

We have files by the same name in our include/ directory.  They are
intended to replace Microsoft's .h files.  

FreeTDS compiles under Win32 with VC++, Borland, and gcc.  I think you're
the first one to mention CE, though!  It will be interesting to look at
your patch.  

> Whom can I send the patch to ?

Patches are best posted to our Source Forge site.  You can send them here,
too, but they can get lost if you do that.  Uploading a patch to Source
Forge triggers a mail message to this list, notifying us automatically.  

We prefer patches against the CVS head.  Patches against a release
typically can't be applied to current code.  Our modus operandi seems to
be that we code quickly and release slowly.  ;-)

> Also I want to add unicode support (utf8 and SQBNCHAR support) for TDS7,
> any one is working on it now?

Do you mostly use Windows, or some unix-like OS?  

Current CVS has UTF-8 support.  One of the main "bragging points" of the
next release (0.62) will be that it supports UTF-8 clients e.g. Red Hat 9.
 This aspect could really, really use a thorough unit test, as well as
real-world testing.  It would make me very happy to know someone such as
yourself was both using it and participating on the list.  

--jkl