[fpc-pascal] download mirror is missing

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu May 25 15:29:34 CEST 2017


In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> >> 
> >> http://freepascal.stack.nl/down/x86_64/linux-netherlands.html
> >> 
> >> so it must be something in how the main site is updated.
> >
> > Who can update the download page?
> 
> I have regenerated it (I think).
> 
> The website is created using Black Magic, it defies analysis.
> It's an ill-advised attempt to create a multilingual site.
> 
> The person who made it is no longer on the team, and his scripts are in tcl.

The actual script is make. The scripts to generate the script are in Pascal
assisted TCL :-)

It does taught us a lesson to use scripting languages that are not broadly 
carried.

> We'll need to clean it up once and for all. Create something like hugo
> https://gohugo.io/overview/introduction/

Simply replacing the tcl bits would be enough. It seems a simple makefile
generator app. 



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