FreeTDS Development Group

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

> 
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, "ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > IMO it would be glad if you can:
> > 1- change version in configure.in to 0.62rc1 (or 0.62rc2...)
> > 2- put patch for Mac OS X (libtool) in distribution
> > 3- put a news in http://www.freetds.org/news.html
> > 4- put a link in http://www.freetds.org/ and/or 
> > http://www.freetds.org/software.html
> 
> OK, except #2.  I didn't include the patch because I think it 
> would be too unreliable.  I'm not sure how consistent libtool 
> will be from Mac to Mac. 
> That's why I only documented it in the UG.  Also, I hope the 
> problem will just Go Away sometime soon, so I didn't want to 
> add a libtool patch to our CVS.  
> 

You are right... I never tried this patch on Linux or other platform and
I don't know if it works... another option is to patch libtool in
configure...

> BTW, I'm going to remove this obsolete line from configure.in, too:
> 
>       AC_INIT(src/dblib/dblib.c)
> 
> I'll take care of all this later today.  Thanks for prompting 
> me, Freddy. 
> 
> 
> > 5- update http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetds/ (hide 
> 0.60 release 
> > and add 0.62rc?)
> 
> Uploading files to SF is tedious.  I think I'll remove/hide 
> the files there, and point everyone to ibiblio.  It's not 
> like ibiblio's servers are a well-kept secret or anything.  ;-)
> 

I agree... uploading ftp, logging on SF, setting a file, save, setting
another file, saving, insert comment, ... very long process...

> > Also a link to the full name (ie: freetds-0.62rc2.tar.gz, no 
> > freetds-0.62rc.tar.gz, no freetds-0.62rc2.tgz) would be 
> fine for who 
> > wants to build rpm (as you can build your rpm just downloading and 
> > running rpmbuild -ta freetds-0.62rc2.tar.gz)
> 
> I use full names on the ftp server, with symlinks to (I hope) 
> simplify things.  If you want the "latest" 
> rc/release/snapshot, follow the symlink.  If you want the 
> specific one, it's there as .tar.gz.  
> 

Yes, however usually users download files from website so website should
point to full-name, not to symlink.

> One way in which this is very helpful to me (and to people 
> who like their links to be stable) is that the web pages 
> don't have to be updated every time ftp server is.  
> 

How you update website?? Usually I use ftp... I use this program to
update my websites http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/ it's very easy and
support WebDAV, ftp and shell.

> Looking at the ftp server yesterday, I had this thought for 
> the symlinks:
> 
>       freetds-current.tgz => nightly snapshot
>       freetds-release.tgz => latest release (still 0.61.2)
>       freetds-release-candidate.tgz => latest rc.
> 
> When there's no current release candidate, the symlink might 
> break, point to the release, or point to (or be) a text file 
> explaining the situation. 
> 

Ok, however RC should be in current, not in stable...

freddy77