FreeTDS Development Group

[jklowden AT schemamania.org]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 05:53:10PM +0000, Perl_to_SQL_Server wrote:

> One part that remains unclear is the TDS versioning:
> - I had 7.2 as the current version, from the freeTDS documentation
> - but had to backtrack to 7.1 to avoid the installation falling back on 5.0
> - From many external sites like the unixODBC's, there's an 8.0 version

http://www.freetds.org/userguide/tdshistory.htm

In years past, Microsoft didn't document TDS versions, and FreeTDS 
made up its own out of necessity.  When Microsoft published the TDS 
specification under pressure from the EU, lo and behold there were 
version numbers, and different from ours.  

I called them up and they were quite understanding, but I had to agree 
that it was, really, a smaller problem, especially for them, for us 
to adopt their numbers than for them to adopt ours.  So we switched.  

--jkl