FreeTDS Development Group

[Marc Abramowitz <marca AT surveymonkey.com>]

I thought it would be nice to have a function in pymssql that prints out the 
version of FreeTDS in use. This could be useful for troubleshooting as well 
as skipping tests that are known to fail with older versions of FreeTDS 
(e.g.: the problem with dbrpcparam with wide strings that I posted about in 
another thread -- 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2013q1/028272.html).

My first attempt was to use the function tds_get_compiletime_settings. That 
didn't work because that symbol is private in libsybdb. I wonder if it makes 
sense to make it global?

What I ended up doing was using the ct_config function — unfortunately, this 
requiring adding a link with libct (pymssql only linked with libsybdb before)

Is there a better way?

Marc