Re: gda-sybase: Ongoing developement in cvs

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

> 
> 
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Holger Thon wrote:
> 
> > Nono, a bash and gcc for ms is enough... ;-)
> >
> But who am I to stop someone elses waste..er...use of time? :-)
>  
> > 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.
> 
> Let's see, SQSH (command line sybase query tool), DBD::Sybase (Perl), PHP
> sybase module, SybSQL (qt based query tool), and lots of in-house code
> originally written for Sybase work with freetds against either Sybase or
> MS SQL with no code changes to them.  (Of course freetds required changes
> here and there to implement previously missing functionality).  
> 
> SQSH 1.4 was dblib, 1.5+ is ctlib.  DBD::Sybase is ctlib.  PHP has both
> dblib and ctlib varients.  SybSQL is dblib.
> 
> > > 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? :-)
> > 
> The changes to the API will be minor (mostly just #define or enum changes)
> and will be compatible at the source level, but definately things will
> need a recompile to go from v0.50 to 0.51.  Once I get 0.51 in the can,
> I'm going to be back to making larger changes in the CVS version and
> that'll be the time to make any needed changes for gda-sybase (just
> guessing though...the other possibility is it compiles out of the box and
> works ;-) 
> 
so, Brian, please enlighten us on this issue (the use of the TDS protocol and
the implementation of the less possible providers).

What do you suggest?

cheers