Re: text driver disappeared from 2.2.13/14 ???
Nick Gorham <[email protected]>
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Tom Lane wrote: >"Peter Harvey" <[email protected]> writes: > > >>The issue of removing drivers from the driver manager was briefly >>discussed on the development list and I would guess that other than the >>text driver the split would benefit linux distributors. >> >> > >Yes, I remember the discussion about removing the mysql and postgres >drivers, and I was all for that. If removing the text driver was >mentioned, I overlooked that part :-( > > > >>Some grief has >>been caused by packaging drivers with unixODBC which are really >>maintained in a different source code control systems. Perhaps the >>differentiation between them should in deed be that - drivers where the >>definitive source is unixODBC can be distributed with unixODBC and those >>where the source is held elsewhere should be distributed from their >>primary source. >> >> > >Indeed, the problem is exactly that there are separate projects >maintaining those two drivers, and those guys are more active about it >than unixODBC is. So I'd prefer to ship (only) their versions of those >drivers. But AFAIK there is not another source for the text driver. > >I don't particularly care whether the text driver is bundled into >unixODBC or is distributed as a separate tarball. But if I push out >2.2.14 into Fedora as-is, useful functionality will disappear. > > > But remember the main reason open soure works, people work on things that they need, and add the functionality they need, sounds like you/RH need the txt driver, Peter originally did the work, so maybe between the two of you a plan could be organised. It may be better for the future of the driver that is is spun off as a seperate project. There are interactions in the unixODBC code that worries me such that I am never sure what I might be breaking in the parts I don't use (or in this case, don't think anyone uses). -- Nick _______________________________________________ unixODBC-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.unixodbc.org/mailman/listinfo/unixodbc-dev