Re: restructuration

[Brian Bruns <camber ais org>]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> Brian Bruns wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > 
> > > Holger Thon wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:04:09AM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > > Hi all!
> > > > >
> > > > > Just a quick note for Ismael (in CC) in Spanish, sorry!
> > > > >
> > > > > [Ismael, para tí es la pregunta de los RPMS]
> > > > >
> > > > > The RPM issue reminds me another thing. Right now, there is a spec file
> > > > > containing all the gnome-db packages. So, to build the RPMS, you need to
> > > > > have installed PostgreSQL, MySQL, ODBC, and Oracle (and very soon other
> > > > > DBMS when the in-development providers work) to be able to build the
> > > > > RPMS. This is ok for me for the moment, because I've got all this
> > > > > installed in my machine, but not for other people, or even for myself
> > > > > when DB2, Sybase, etc, etc are included. I don't want to have hundreds
> > > >
> > > > Sybase provider is usable now, the diffs just went out to Stephan for
> > > > inclusion.
> > > >
> > > great!
> > >
> > Does the Sybase provider use dblib or ctlib?  I'd be interested in getting
> > it to work over FreeTDS (open source reimplementation of the above)
> > 
> I think it uses ctlib. If there is an open source implementation of it,
> it would be great to have it working with that.
> 
Yes, FreeTDS (http://www.freetds.org) is an LGPL implementation of dblib
and ctlib, that works from TDS 4.2 (sybase < 10.0, MS SQL < 7.0), 5.0
(Sybase 10.0+), and 7.0 (MS SQL 7.0+).  I'm going to try to build gnome-db
against it and see what happens. 

Anyone got any tips on starting this endevour?  (Required gnome lib
versions etc...I'm starting with RedHat 6.1, so I'm assuming I'll want to
upgrade some rpms before starting).

Brian