On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:36, Jerkins, Phillip wrote: > Hello! > > > > I am new to the mailing list concept, and to contributing to > open-source software. However, I have a great interest (personal and > professional) in mono. I was wondering if anyone has begun support > for named instances of SQL2K in the > System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection object. If not, I would like to > contribute. I have looked at the code for SqlConnection, and > understand it well enough to add this support. I have also researched > named instance browsing, and I have prototype code in C# that works. > If no one else is working on this, I will begin integrating. > AFAIK, no one is working on this, so it would be great to have it added.
> > > 1) Is anyone already working on this? > not that I know > 2) Which version of the code should I start with? The latest > CVS, or 0.19? > you should be using, if possible, CVS for developement. If not possible, 0.19 is the last one > 3) Is it preferable to develop in WinXP w/ Cygwin, or under > RedHat 8.0? (I intend to test under both). > it's better to do it on free software, whatever that is (linux, bsd, ...) :-) > 4) In what format, and where or to whom should I submit my > changes? Entire replacement files? DIFFs with the originals? I may > have firewall issues with CVS � I definitely do at work, and I only > have NetZero (free) Internet at home. > the best thing is to send us cvs diff (cvs diff -u). If you can't use CVS, a diff against the latest release, or, even better, latest snapshot might be enough. cheers -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
