FreeTDS Development Group

["Mark J. Lilback" <mark AT lilback.com>]

At 11:07 PM -0500 11/10/2003, James K. Lowden wrote:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/ReleaseNotes/DeveloperTools/TwoLevelNamespaces.html
>
> I wonder if our Mac gurus could comment on whether this discussion
> pertains to using FreeTDS?  I'd like to know whether I should reference it
> in our UG.

There are no issues with it. There were some with 10.0, but the 
problem functions were renamed at the time.Since 10.1, it isn't an 
issue.

At 8:09 AM -0500 11/11/2003, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> I never understood the persistence of Apple to support a dead binary object
> format such as mach-o and coming up with solutions to the same problems that
> ELF has solved many years ago (weak-symbols in this case). Someone should

Actually, Apple's previous format (PEF) had great weak-symbol 
support, but was thrown away for mach-o. The official reason is 
because of dynamic features needed for the objective-c runtime, but 
the real reason is that the head of software at Apple was one of the 
key developers of Mach and has a real problem with "not invented 
here" syndrome (with here being NeXT, not Apple). A few years ago he 
wrote a technote stating that C++ is a dead language and that 
developers must move away from it. That was pulled almost immediately 
after being posted.

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