[unixODBC-dev] text driver disappeared from 2.2.13/14 ???

[Nick Gorham]

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Peter Harvey" <pharvey at peterharvey.org> writes:
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>>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.
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>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 :-(
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>			regards, tom lane
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It also depends on what you want from the driver, if its just for 
testing, maybe a null driver wuld be more sutable?

-- 
Nick