[fpc-pascal] download mirror is missing

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 25 May 2017, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> 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.

No way. I'm going to get rid of everything.

The current system is confusing and completely un-understandable, it needs to go.

The multi-language support has not been used in 15 years, so it is time to
put it out of its misery...

Michael.