* The main page's title appears in search results, so use "The Racket
Language" instead of "Racket". Additional minor tweaks to a few more
titles to make them presentable as search results.
* Add a `#:description' keyword to make it easy to add it to pages. Add
such texts to the main page, downloads, community, learning, people,
and mailing list pages.
* Add a <meta name="robots" content="NOODP" /> to the front page, to
avoid getting the ODP (dmoz) blurb, hopefully the new and improved
description(s) will be used instead. (If not, this should be
reverted.)
(Otherwise having both installed can be confusing since the uninstaller
has the same name; also, it's good to make a reminder for people who
want the other one.)
Also, just use the platform string in the registry key uniformly.
Also add a comment about detecting Win64 if it's desirable in the
future.
This is triggered by an environment variable that points at a file that
is used to cache polling results. If the variable is not specified just
use all mirror links as usual. This way, for random builds when people
try things out there is no problem, while the nightly builds (and my
manual builds when there are changes) do the right thing.
The file holds information about the polls, and verifies that the
download exists -- if not, the link is not shown. If it is, then it
tries to get the size of the remote file (via HEAD or via FTP), and if
it doesn't match our download information, then drop it too. If no size
informaion is available, include it, but re-poll after a few days. Even
if the size matches, a re-poll will be done after a month, so stale
mirrors will not stick.
This makes it correspond to the license page we have on downloads that
talks about the "lesser" GPL rather than the "library" one.
Also, change the file name to have a more friendly .txt suffix, and add
some more responsible properties for things in doc/release-notes.
Also get rid of the defunct "chronology" link at the bottom of the
community page. It was a very old (pre-svn/git) leftover from a time
where that was relevant for people who want to participate.
Done in two steps: first, make the list of installers have a good order
(determined by package, then OS type, then cpu, etc); make the JS code
that re-sorts the entries move only the desired options to the top but
otherwise use the original order (which is the previous thing).
For example, instead of "Linux - Fedora 7 (x86_64)", use "Linux x86_64
(Fedora 7)". Hopefully, this will make it clearer that it's often fine
to use some linux installer on a different platform than the one it was
made on. (For example, some people wanted an AMD64 build for Ubuntu,
and eventually it turned out that the x86_64 build on Fedora worked
fine.)
This is even more relevant now since the C part is much less platform
dependent in the linux distro sense.
