FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il ven, 2003-12-05 alle 18:56, Lowden, James K ha scritto:
> > From: ZIGLIO Frediano [mailto:Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com]
> > Sent: December 5, 2003 5:04 AM
> > 
> > Well, time for rc release ??
> 
> I've been working toward it.  As you say, the documentation is the biggest
> remaining todo.  
> 
> I'm revamping doc/Makefile.am.  I created userguide.dsl.in; it will let us
> customize the DocBook stylesheet.  Two benefits: 1) little graphics for
> tip/warning/note, and 2) the .html filenames will be based on the name of
> the section (<section id="pagename">).  I also updated the Unicode appendix.
> 
> 
> BTW, in researching Unicode, I found out that "utf-8 ucs-2 ascii" in Google
> returns our very own User Guide as item #1!  Unfortunately, it links to a
> page named "a2698.htm".  Since we are apparently a resource on this topic, I
> thought it would be a good idea to be able to control the names, so the link
> doesn't break the next time we update the UG.  
> 
> I'm not done, but you can see the work in progress,
> http://www.schemamania.org/projects/freetds/build/doc/userguide/index.htm
> 

Seem good... Where can I found a "DocBook guide for lazy boy" ?? :)

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> 
> > - ct_dynamic. Code is in CVS... do we need some tests ?
> 
> That would be a good idea.  Can you adapt something from the ODBC tests?  
> 

I don't know... I don't know ct-lib that much... :(

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> 
> [ODBC issues]
> 
> I'm going to re-write and reorganize the ODBC documentation, since I've been
> complaining about it for, oh, a year or more, and no one's stepped forward.
> We discussed a better organization; I'll look over those notes.  One goal is
> to make clear the relationship of odbc.ini and freetds.conf.  Another is to
> separate DM issues.  We need separate sections for setups that use odbc.ini
> + freetds.conf, odbc.ini only, and freetds.conf only.  And I think the
> nomenclature should reflect the "only-ness" rather than the "-less" names we
> use now.  If we say, "You can set up your ODBC connection using only
> odbc.ini", we shouldn't call that a "conf-less" setup.  
> 

That came from DSN-less. DSN-less is used in ODBC terminology so we
extend it to freetds.conf-less... Perhaps as Steve suggests we should
encourage to avoid the use of freetds.conf and use
"freetds.conf-ness"...
Usually however is easy to test FreeTDS with tsql and configure odbc to
point to freetds.conf server...

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> According to api_status.txt, you're about 80% done!  Who knew?  That means
> there's only about 80% left to do!  
> 
> It's not clear to me anymore which API is the "weak sister".  If Bill and I
> can get the bulk-copy stuff moved into libbpc (instead of db-lib), we'll be
> in a position to support bulk-copy from any API.  
> 

Good question... dblib has BCP while ct-lib has cursors...

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> 
> >  - appendix C. Is there a way to put all GNU license in a 
> > single page ??
> 
> Probably.  I don't see why we should do that.  If we decide to offer the UG
> with a variety of html chunkings, we'd want Appendix C to follow the same
> arrangement as the main text.  
> 

Simply cause license is a unique document... I don't know if you can
split legal material as you want...

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bye
  freddy77