FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:28:43PM -0400, Ken Collins wrote:
> 
> I have noticed that I can not use --with-tdsver=8.0 when
> configuring 0.91. So I have been using 7.1 to establish a base of
> 2000 compatibility. I know this is just a default too and that
> this can be overridden when a client connects and/or using the
> freetds.conf file. But I wanted to ask because I still use 8.0 in
> my conf file for 0.82 and 0.91 and that seems to work fine. Does
> all this sound OK?

We switched to Microsoft's official nomenclature once they
published it.  The configure script uses the new numbers, and  
freetds.conf accepts them, but freetds.conf also still recognizes
the old numbers as a compatibility measure.  At some future time
that may no longer be true, but it's true for 0.91.  

The UG and configure help strings both reflect the new
nomenclature, and the NEWS file in the RC mentions the change.  

(For the record, so that no one's confused, you're using 0.91RC1.
There's no 0.91 yet.)  

--jkl