Re: new release

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

> > Hi all!
> > 
> > Antoher thing: I've been talking in private with Akira about making
> > weekly packages from CVS
> > (debs and RPMs) and he agreed, so after this new release, there will be
> > weekly packages built
> > to avoid the "hundred" messages we get between one release and another
> > about people
> > having problems with the bonobo/GConf/oaf versions installed on their
> > systems.
> > 
> > And, Holger: do you think the sybase provider is ready to be packaged as
> > the other stable
> > providers for this new release? If so, I'll take into account this when
> 
> I'm sorry it isn't, yet. 
> 
> The old source in gda-sybase-server should compile if the
> dnl lines in configure.in somebody put in are commented out. 
>
That was me, because there was a syntax error I couldn't find, and then,
I've forgotten about it. So please Holger, put it again as it was. And sorry
for forgetting.

> But this needs
> to be linked against the sybase's commercial openclient libs to compile.
>
but does it work more or less well (sorry, I haven't tested it, but because
I've got no sybase installed)? if so, I think it should go in the new release,
maybe as a preview version. What do you think?

> The freetds-server now connects to an ase server, but cannot issue sql
> commands to the server yet (like use database_xy). So it would be useless
> at this point. I wanted to check on this problem this weekend, but i cannot
> promise i'll make it usable in that short time. ;-)
>
great! you're advancing, so this is good!
 
> 
> Ciao,
> 
>   Holger
> 
> PS: Another problem will be that i suppose (i don't know for sure...) that the
> system database tables of MS-SQL defer from the Sybase tables (as sysdatabases
> for information about databases, syscolumns for any column in any table in
> the database etc.). So the schemes will not work with an MS SQL server when
> ready (and have to be adapted to also work with MS SQ from somebody else, 
> then).
> 
anybody here who knows enough about MS SQL? not me, I've never used it.
and, will it be possible to know, at run-time, which DB server you are
connected to?

cheers