From owner-freebsd-database Wed May 24 20:54:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C259A37B900 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 20:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12uoRU-0007aB-00; Wed, 24 May 2000 20:36:16 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 20:36:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: "Robert S. Sciuk" Cc: matt@msg.ucsf.edu, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: native Sybase support soon? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 May 2000, Robert S. Sciuk wrote: > I assume that you know about freetds in the ports collection?? > > Port description for databases/freetds > > This is TDS protocol library (CTlib/DBlib) that is used to connect to > Microsoft and Sybase SQL servers. This can be used instead of native > libraries, that are shipped with commercial products. Yes, I use FreeTDS. But it is very finicky. It is a work in progress. Someone from Sybase came on the FreeTDS list announced that the driver would be open-sourced! But it fizzeled out. So the slow reverse-engineering and guesswork development process of FreeTDS continues on. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message