FreeTDS Development Group

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

> 
> Hi Freddy,. 
> 
> ZIGLIO, Frediano, VF-IT wrote:
> > Some todo before RC
> >  - odbc rpc review (multiple chained for mssql7+??)
> >  - odbc cursor review
> 
> I leave this to you.  I'm satisfied when you are.  
> 

Still to do...

> >  - dbsetnull patch ?? anyone can test/comment/anything this stuff
> 
> I definitely want to add this before the release.  It's a 
> nice addition,
> done correctly.  
> 

applied

There is also a patch for ctlib at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1729392&group_i
d=33106&atid=407808
I'm not so ctlib expert so I would be happy if someone could revise the
patch...

> >  - readline compile problem ?? I don't think FreeTDS should 
> depend on
> > readline just to compile... there are two solutions
> >   1- disable fisql if readline not available (very easy)
> >   2- make fisql not dependent on readline
> 
> Best solution is [3] to build fisql without readline if 
> readline is not
> available.  I know it's something Nick is interested in 
> seeing happen. 
> Time is something else.  
> 
> fisql is a good tool to have: 
> 
>       1.  Highly functional.
>       2.  Works with Sybase db-lib, thus can expose errors in 
> FreeTDS db-lib. 
> 

Fixed in a way similar to tsql... perhaps TOO similar (TODO: put code in
replacements??)

> I agree it's getting to be time to release 0.65.  Proababy 
> should call it
> 0.70; it's a long way from e.g. 0.63.  
> 

At your opinion

> Question about locale: do we now default the client charset 
> according to
> locale, using freetds.conf as an override?  We should.  Docs 
> need updating
> on this point too (note to self).  
> 

Are we sure?? Certainly we handle case where LANG is set to XXXX.charset
but I don't know other cases... correctly freetds.conf can override it.
Perhaps it would be fine to have an ODBC option too... 

I think we are moving in the right direction.
Recently I manage to get a chrooted environment with 3 Sybase versions
working (old 11.9.2, 12.5 and 15 !!!), obviously I cannot distribute it
(and I cannot even share the server, mainly for resource reasons) but is
very useful for me. chroot means real system performance so I can even
test for performance. Is also very easy to more this environment to
different machines.

freddy77