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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Ambitious ideas</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="userguide.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FreeTDS User Guide" /><link rel="up" href="contrib.html" title="Chapter 10. Helping" /><link rel="prev" href="Light.taper.html" title="Light another's taper" /><link rel="next" href="Advocacy.html" title="Advocacy" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Ambitious ideas</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Light.taper.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 10. Helping</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Advocacy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Ambition"></a>Ambitious ideas</h2></div></div></div><p>If you want to get your hands really dirty, here are some big ideas to contemplate. </p><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="idm3666"></a><code class="literal">libtds2</code></h3></div></div></div><p>After many years developing <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span>, we've learned quite a bit about the protocol and how to write database libraries. Unfortunately, though, one of the things holding us back — and, obviously hampering the project — is the underlying utility library.</p><p>This wouldn't be a from-scratch effort; most of the code is already written. What's needed is a more uniform API that better reflects the TDS protocol, and that does <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> attempt character set conversions immediately on receipt of the data. </p></div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="idm3673"></a><code class="literal">libstddb</code></h3></div></div></div><p>This would be a new client library modelled after <code class="literal">stdio</code>, a project to demonstrate what database programming should be like. </p></div><div class="sect2"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="idm3678"></a>Server code </h3></div></div></div><p><span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> includes a little stub of a server, but it could be much more useful. One idea would be to make it a front-end to SQLite, thereby creating for the first time a TDS client & server pair composed entirely of free software. </p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Light.taper.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="contrib.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Advocacy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Light another's taper </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Advocacy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>