It seems to me that there are too many steps (some are broken) needed
to find the actual download page for the ODBC driver. My fellow
co-workers agree with my concern. I would expect that other ODBC users
feel the same.
Here are the steps needed to find the download page. I'll try to
point out the steps that I consider "broken".
1) www.postgresql.org -> downloads
2) ./download/ -> Software Catalogue
3) ./download/product-categories -> Drivers and interfaces
4) ./download/products/2 -> psqlODBC
5) ./pgfoundry.org/projects/psqlodbc -> no where to go from here
This is the step that I think is broken. At this point, there is no
other link at pgfoundry to take you to the psql ODBC binaries. You
have to read the page and find the text: "Downloads are available on
the PostgreSQL Mirror network at http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/".Since the above text is only text and not a
hyper-link,you have to
copy the link and paste it into that address-bar of the web-browsers.
Also, pgfoundry creates a bit of confusion since it has its own
download link "http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000125&release_id=364"
and following this link takes the user to a page with nothing to
download.
6) after pasting the link, we are finally at the ODBC download page:
www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/
To me 6 steps are a lot, it would be nice if there were fewer steps.
Also to me, pgfoundry is effectively a dead-end having not further
links to the actual download page.
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Richard Broersma Jr.
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