FreeTDS Development Group

[Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>]

Everyone,

I just wanted to thank y'all for working toward the release of FreeTDS. Many 
thanks too to those that have helped me debug issues that relate to the 
latest release of the TinyTDS gem for ruby and I wanted to share what we 
accomplished using FreeTDS. 

WIth the latest changes, I was able to release a ruby gem this this morning 
that has statically compiled binaries that include Libiconv and FreeTDS that 
will install on multiple versions for the Windows platform. This means that 
Windows user with the RailsInstaller project need not worry about putting 
these parts together or building them do be able to leverage FreeTDS to 
connect to their SQL Server data from Ruby. I am so excited about this as it 
would help promote Ruby to a large base. Again, all this would not have been 
possible with many of you helping me thru it.

Thanks again to those working hard on FreeTDS!!!
Ken