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

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

Hi all,

All patches committed (unless I screwed up and missed something).

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/
>