FreeTDS Development Group

[Igor Korot <ikorot AT earthlink.net>]

James,

-----Original Message-----
>From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
>Sent: Mar 13, 2009 12:05 AM
>To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [freetds] New release roadmap
>
>Igor Korot wrote:
>> >From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
>> >Why do you want this?  It's really the way of the past.  The trend is
>> >to single-signon.  Drivers poping up dialogs sounds like something from
>> >1992.
>> 
>> Because it's Microsoft documented in MSDN?
>
>IOW, because it's there?  That's why people climb mountains, so I'm told. 
>
>My purpose in hacking FreeTDS isn't to replicate Microsoft's driver.  It's
>to make a useful driver.  It's useful by being similar, but similarity per
>se is not the goal. Definitely Microsoft's driver is not beautiful enough
>to warrant copying for copying's sake in the way that, say, the Mona Lisa
>is.   

I was actually thinking about bringing the driver to be more standard,
in terms of ODBC standard way of doing things.

>
>> >Much better in Win32/64 would be domain-login ability using the Win32
>> >API to pass the credentials.  
>> 
>> Unfortunately I don't have a means to test it on Windows
>
>Nor does anyone.  The feature has not yet been written.  
>
>> I also wonder what will happen with the driver in this case: will
>> it fail? do nothing? spits error message about not enough connect info?
>
>Just fail.  Libraries should be totally silent.  They return error codes
>that the caller converts into messages.  

So, it just return an ODBC-compliant error code, correct?

>
>--jkl
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>I would have let you know off-list, but I'm not very good with forms.

Thank you.
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