Bug #4868 | instructions and links to download source distribution not working | ||
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Submitted: | 3 Aug 2004 12:08 | Modified: | 4 Aug 2004 19:50 |
Reporter: | Sergio Fonseca | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Websites | Severity: | S2 (Serious) |
Version: | OS: | Windows (Windows 2000) | |
Assigned to: | Jim Winstead | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[3 Aug 2004 12:08]
Sergio Fonseca
[3 Aug 2004 16:48]
MySQL Verification Team
It was easy to me to go to the source download: From the Main page -> Products -> Download -> http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html then in the bottom I had: download - pick a mirror: http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20a-win-src.zip/from/http://www.lin... http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20a-win-src.zip/from/pick
[3 Aug 2004 17:45]
Sergio Fonseca
Thanks for your response, Miguel. But I tried your steps and they did not get me to those links posted. There must be some steps missing. This should be much simpler. Not your fault, but navigation design should be reworked. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll explain what I mean. Your instructions were: "From the Main page -> Products -> Download -> " http://www.mysql.com/ http://www.mysql.com/products/ http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ So far so good. All those links exist and work. But THEN you say: "then in the bottom I had: download - pick a mirror:" There is no link such as Download - Pick a Mirror on THIS PAGE. I guess you meant that before this step, you select: from under MySQL database server & standard clients: the link "MySQL 4.0" -- Generally Available (GA) release (recommended) . Is that correct? I will assume that is what was meant. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html Now I see a page full of mirror sites which do have links to: Download - Pick a Mirror. [We need to know to select link "MySQL 4.0"] Now the question is: Which of the choices did you make that got you that zipped SOURCE code file? OK. I will assume that any link under the Windows downloads would work. Let's say that under 'Windows downloads (platform notes)', I select: Download - Pick a Mirror. Now I get to: http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20d-win.zip/from/pick http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20d-win.zip/from/pick#mirrors If 'Download' is selected, that automatically tries to download the binary distribution. No good for me. I want to look at the source. If 'Pick a Mirror' is selected, then after skipping the name, address stuff, by clicking on 'No thanks, just take me to the downloads!' then we get a list of mirrors and countries where the download would be at. Let's say I select a U.S. location by clicking on HTTP link. Now the file download process starts up trying to download "mysql-4.0.20d-win.zip". Nowhere did it give me the choice to download any Source for 4.0.20d. Questions: How did you get to (navigate) the links which you obviously found which refer to the source distribution? That is the crux of the problem!!! Some steps are missing. Try your instructions yourself and see that there is no way "by navigating" to get to the links listed below which you mentioned in your comment. http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20a-win-src.zip/from/http://www.lin... http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20a-win-src.zip/from/pick How are these links found? By searching? Clicking on 12 to 15 other links to find them? Things should be alot easier. Example: You want the binary dist ---> Click here. You want the source dist ---> Click here. Thanks anyway. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html then in the bottom I had: download - pick a mirror:
[3 Aug 2004 19:30]
MySQL Verification Team
Source download
Attachment: download1.JPG (image/jpeg, text), 108.12 KiB.
[3 Aug 2004 19:31]
MySQL Verification Team
Pick up the file
Attachment: download2.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 127.06 KiB.
[3 Aug 2004 19:35]
MySQL Verification Team
Hi Sergio, Then I show you with pictures (please see them using the Files tab). I did: Main Page -> Products Products at right side -> Downloads Download at left side -> MySQL 4.0 Then you can see the picture download1.jpg the top and the bottom of this page. I clicked pick a mirror then you can see in the download2.jpg downloading the source file. Notice that the first mirror in my case is a Brazilian ones, because I am in Brazil. Hope this help you.
[3 Aug 2004 20:07]
Sergio Fonseca
Thanks again, Miguel. Or, should I say, "como vai". SP? RJ? Brazil's very nice. Been there several times. Am in NYC. But on the download problem: 1- Your download files do not get included. Nothing attached. Could not see anything about what you were doing. Why don't you just include the links from the point where you can Pick a Mirror site, which I have done a couple times. You will see that you can only access links which download "binaries". That is it. Unless, of course, it is some other unknown hard-to-get-at "undocumented feature" page. As a developer with over 16 years experience, let me recommend you to look at how Sun does it at java.sun.com. It is very easy to download packages. You just select what you want and then click on it. I am sorry to say ("Desculpa"), but I do not see how one can "easily" find the source code distribution download link. Click on the following 'Source Downloads' link on the page below to see what I am talking about: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html As they say here in NYC: "It don't work." With all the other issues which come up in development, this should NOT be one of them. If you send me your email, I can continue this discussion off the bug report list with you. 2- I would like to try and stay open-source, but not if it is going to stop me from connecting to a backend database. Sorry to say that about MySQL. I really wanted to give it a try on these 2 dev. projects that I am prototyping. I have read 2 entire books on MySQL already (The Complete Reference and MySQL:...your visual blueprint...). Things work very quickly and nicely from the supplied command-line MySQL client. But.......(the real test).... :( I may have to use another database (Oracle Lite, Access,etc). Regards, Serg
[3 Aug 2004 20:37]
Indrek Siitan
Serg, does the following link not work for you either? http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-4.0/mysql-4.0.20a-win-src.zip/from/pick#mirrors The source downloads are all located in the very bottom of the download page. We used to have it the other way around, but the growing popularity of MySQL along the not-so-techie users led to a lot of people downloading the source distribution and then going "Now what? There's nothing I can run in here".
[3 Aug 2004 20:40]
Indrek Siitan
Also, actually thanks - I discovered a real bug among your information - the "Source downloads" link on the right hand side indeed does not work. It links to the #Source anchor on the same page, but the anchor at the source downloads on the bottom of the page is missing. We'll fix this ASAP.
[4 Aug 2004 19:50]
Jim Winstead
The anchors for the various download sections (including Source) have been fixed.