FreeTDS Development Group

[Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net>]

> Why don't you dynamically link to it?

We do for normal ruby gem installs. But for Windows, most of them do not know 
how to build and install software, so we build TinyTDS with FreeTDS & 
Libiconv as static libs into the Ruby C extension

> because the functionality your gem is presenting to the
> rest of the world, is the functionality provided by freetds and nothing 
> more,

Perhaps, but not from a Ruby perspective.


 - Ken