<docbook><section><title>Roadmap</title><title>iODBC Development Roadmap</title>iODBC Development Roadmap
<para>The following projects are planned to expand the iODBC project into a complete environment for database connectivity:</para>
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">Implementation of iodbcinst library</bridgehead>
<para>The iodbcinst library has been implemented with graphical support for GTK on X11/Unix-based systems and Carbon on <ulink url="MacOS">MacOS</ulink> X.
 Support for other graphical libraries is under consideration.</para>
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">Thread-safety &amp; Reentrancy Issues</bridgehead>
<para>iODBC is fully thread-safe and reentrant at present, using POSIX or native threads.</para>
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">ODBC 3.0 Specification</bridgehead>
<para>iODBC is compliant with the ODBC specification to version 3.52.</para>
<bridgehead class="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml:h2">ODBC 4.0 Specification</bridgehead>
<para><ulink url="OpenLink">OpenLink</ulink> is currently evaluating the ODBC 4.0 specification draft, and will add support in a forthcoming release.</para>
<para>Development volunteers are welcomed as this will certainly ensure acceleration of this roadmap.
If <ulink url="OpenLink">OpenLink</ulink> is left to bear the development costs then the iODBC community has to accept <ulink url="OpenLink">OpenLink</ulink> delivery timeframes.
This still remains one of the biggest challenges of the iODBC project.</para>
<para>If you want to help out contact us at iodbc@openlinksw.com.</para>
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