FreeTDS Development Group

[Steven Orton <sorton9999 AT usa.net>]

Gentlemen, (any ladies out there?),

  I'd like to get in on this thread.  Being a novice user who is rapidly
becoming an educated novice user, it seems to me that adding another file that
needs to be set up (freetds.conf) was/is very confusing.  This file should be
left "under the covers" to the average user as it just adds another layer to
an already confusing aspect of ODBC and it took me a while to get it straight.
 I believe OpenLink uses TDS and they leave their "freetds.conf" file
invisible.  I think that "odbc.ini-only" functionality by default would be
very advantageous.
  I'd just like to add that this product is very important to the ODBC
community and the quality of the software and developers is extemely high.  Oh
yes and lets not forget about the documentation.  Kudos goes out to it as
well.

  steve---


"Steve Murphree" <smurph AT smcomp.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>
> To: "'FreeTDS Development Group'" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:56 AM
> Subject: RE: [freetds] Status
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If using ODBC, I'm of the opinion that nothing involving freetds.conf need
> be mentioned.  ODBC setup should only involve odbc.ini and friends. 
Period.
> Just my 2 cents.  Benifit:  Less documentation and confusion.
> 
> Steve
> 
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