Re: [mdb-dev] [mdbtools-dev] Many patches, is that project dead? Fork?

[Brian B. <br...@br...>]

Hi,

The project has been kind of dead.  I'm hoping to find some time to
get back to it real soon now.  In particular I'd be happy to look at
the patches and apply them to the tree.  Actually, I'd love to get out
of CVS and into something a little more modern such as git, truth be
told.

Brian

2010/6/16 Nirgal Vourgère <con...@ni...>:
> Hi
>
> I've been trying to improve mdbtools and found it quite frustrating seeing no response at all on that mailing list... Last commit was 3 years ago.
>
> This is my last message before setting up a new public repository.
>
> I now have quite a lot of patches over svn trunk, mostly from Debian:
> patches/015-allsyms
>        Add the necessary sql and odbc library dependencies.
> patches/038-removals
>        Factorisation of code for macro/module/query/report
> patches/041-eggiconlist
>        Icons, gtk
> patches/045-aboutdialog
>        Use of gtk_show_about_dialog rather than custom widget
> patches/055-iconv-config
>        Do not #include <config.h> in public headers.
> patches/056-libmdb-data
>        Prevent infinite recursion when database contains infinite floats.
> patches/070-unixodbc-api
>        Fix 64-bit issues with the ODBC support.
> patches/090-mdb-hexdump-argc
>        Get mdb-hexdump usage statement to print.
> patches/092-odbc-close-connections
>        Make odbc_close actually disconnect from the database.
> patches/094-add-man-pages
>        Add man pages for several binaries.
> patches/096-use-system-txt2man
>        Use system txt2man.
> patches/100-postgres-types
>        Fix postgres backend types (UUID, TEXT, BYTEA)
> patches/110-export-csv-null
>        Don't output "" when exporting null values.
> patches/120-decrypt
>        Support for encrypted files.
> patches/130-export-smallfloat
>        Fix for small flats
> patches/140-mdb-tables
>        Fixes in mdb-table command line tool
> patches/150-backend-quote
>        Use backend/dialect specific quotation when generating SQL, for support of spaces in tables names and other problematic characters.
> patches/155-blob
>        Support of Blobs
> patches/160-foreign-keys
>        Support for postgres foreign keys and ON UPDATE / ON DELETE.
> patches/170-sequences
>        Support for autonum as postgres sequences.
>
>
> Is there an commiter left around? Or are they all gone?
> What is their opinion of the above patches?
> Any chance to get an read/write access?
>
> I'm putting all this on http://www.nirgal.com/mdbtools/
>