FreeTDS Development Group

["ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>]

> 
> > I don't understand... why bsqlodbc have to behave well with Sybase's
> > driver??
> 
> It's a way of finding errors.  If bsqlodbc behaves one way with with
> Sybase's driver and another way with FreeTDS, it could point 
> to a bug. 
> Other applications e.g. DBD::ODBC are written to use *any* 
> ODBC driver,
> and they sometimes expose bugs, but their complexity makes it hard to
> trace what's going on.  bsqlodbc is simple, making it a good debugging
> tool IMHO, but since I don't know ODBC all that well and 
> mostly use only
> FreeTDS, I don't know when I'm writing good ODBC compliant 
> code and when
> I'm just adapting to FreeTDS's implementation.  
> 
> Besides, before I tell you we have a bug, I think it's good to check
> another vendor's behavior.  ;-)
> 
> It would probably be better to test with Microsoft's driver, 
> but I'm down
> to zero Window boxes at home and no time for such things at work.  
> 

Well... all unittests compile under and for (cross speacking) Windows
and all tests shold work flawlessly. Perhaps there's some differences in
some tests due to some strictness... I'll redo a test just to see if
differences are still "acceptable"!

freddy77