Re: gda-sybase: Ongoing developement in cvs

[Holger Thon <holger gidayu max uni-duisburg de>]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:31:53AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:31:53 -0500 (EST)
> From: Brian Bruns <camber umcc ais org>
> To: GDA <gnome-db-list gnome org>
> Subject: Re: gda-sybase: Ongoing developement in cvs
> In-Reply-To: <200010291213 EAA04124 gears linuxave net>
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> 
> 
> On 29 Oct 2000, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> > > Holger Thon wrote:
> > > > 3.) Also be added will be a gda-tds-server, which will try to use the tds
> > > >     protocol stack of freetds directly.
> > > > 
> > > > Any suggestions, or opinions?
> Not something I would recommend.  libtds is a very low-level library
> intended only to reduce some of the duplication that the call level
> interfaces (dblib, ctlib, ODBC) would otherwise have to implement.  
> The provider shouldn't need to know all the gory details of the wire-level
> protocol.
> 
> The other advantage is that the same provider could be used with both
> freetds and openclient.  Of course if it were in dblib and someone were
> motivated enough to port gnome-db to windows it could also run against MS dblib.

Nono, a bash and gcc for ms is enough... ;-)

Do you have any experiences if the ctlib/dblib based implementations of
freetds work with both sybase and ms sql? I see rodrigo's point to minimize
the count of providers, when they use the same protocol, so i want to
realize it in the tds provider.

Ciao,

  Holger

> I'm intending to see what is missing from freetds to support the provider as
> soon as I chase down a couple of bugs and get freetds v0.51 out the door
> (I'm way overdue for a release).  

Will there be also changes to the api, or just bugfixes? :-)


Ciao,

 Holger