FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

Well, time for rc release ??

Yesterday I fixed last issues related to checks and dist

$ make distcheck
...
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freetds-0.62.dev.20031204.tar.gz is ready for distribution
==========================================================

"make distcheck" is a good test for distribution, it execute in sequence
- make dist
- untar
- make
- make check
- make install
- make installcheck
- make uninstall
and also checks that clean remove all files and other checks...

I execute the test on
- RH7.1 MSSQL2K with unixODBC
- RH9 Sybase 11.9.2 with unixODBC
So all tests passed successfully using either TDS5 and TDS8. 

There are still some missing issues on TODO
- indirect conversion using iconv
- EILSEQ definition. IMHO we already define EILSEQ to GNU version. If
anyone encounter a problem with EILSEQ should use --disable-libiconv or
GNU iconv. If iconv do not use EILSEQ surely this is a ugly iconv
version and should be avoided...
- locale_charset and nl_langinfo. FreeTDS never used locale_charset nor
nl_langinfo so IMHO this issue can wait...
- ct_dynamic. Code is in CVS... do we need some tests ?
- UTF-8 test. We already have some tests for UTF-8. IMHO can wait.
- userguide and FAQ. This is the bigger TODO... I readed one more time
UG and some parts are not that clear/correct
 - OS-specific Issues (chapter 2)
  - VC++ projects are present only for ODBC driver
  - projects for Dev-C++ are also present (only ODBC)
  - makefile for MingW are prosent (ODBC)
 - PHP / ODBC (chapter 5)
  - "in this guide" link point to iODBC page... not that clear for
unixODBC users...
 - iODBC Driver Manager (chapter 5)
  - configuration should be placed in a separate page, unixODBC use same
configuration
 - Troubleshooting / Microsoft's "Integrated Security" (chapter 6)
  - as FreeTDS support now domain logins this server configuration is
not necessary. This is written in the note but IMHO this part should be
rewritten
 - Helping (chapter 8)
  - "The ODBC driver in particular needs work. It's a big API." not that
true :)...
  - "Support for TDS 8.0 is not yet fully working". What don't work?
Variant... and ?
  - "Document an API" where does it came the 25% ??
 - TDS API (chapter 9)
  - perhaps we should integrate doxygen output in some way ?
 - Unicode: East meets West (appendix B)
  - " Microsoft also designed version 7.0 (and up) of the TDS protocol
around UCS-2: all character data are encoded according to UCS-2 on the
wire". varchar/char/text are not coded in UCS-2...
 - appendix C. Is there a way to put all GNU license in a single page ??

freddy77