On 2011-11-29 17:21, Steve Teale wrote:
All that said, I think we must still cover ODBC. MS ODBC will be the
official standard interface to SQL Server, and they are doing Linux
versions - the 64 bit one is already available.
Steve
Of course we can still cover ODBC, I just don't think ODBC should be the
only, or primary, interface to SQL Server.
But in that case we should do a D TDS version to escape from any
licensing/linking limitations. That won't happen tomorrow ;=)
As I understand it, FreeTDS provides three client libraries: db-lib,
ct-lib and odbc. These libraries are available as dynamic libraries and
then it won't be any licensing issues.
TinyTDS uses db-lib and it HAS to use dynamic library since it's a Ruby
library. I took a quick look at the source code for TinyTDS, it's quite
a small library.
http://www.freetds.org/which_api.html
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/Jacob Carlborg
