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.
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