On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently, the WRO4J support is exclusively build time.
> My plan is to have a new module provide runtime support for CoffeeScript,
> Less, and so forth, using WRO4J.  I want that to be optional, as there's
> just so many dependencies that will be dragged in.
> Less support is important for Bootstrap. SASS is more powerful, but
> requires (J)Ruby.
>

Right, exactly as I thought. Yes, I completely agree on an optional
modules, there's an absurd number of dependencies. Well currently the SASS
precompiler is implemented in Ruby but certainly it doesn't have to be that
way. I saw some talk about native Java implementation, hope we can just
take it into use at some point later.

Kalle


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Kalle Korhonen
> <kalle.o.korho...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hey Howard, where are you with the WRO4J integration? I see it being
> > referenced from buildSrc/build.gradle but what does it mean for T5.4? Our
> > crazy designer coming from bleeding edge RoR world refuses to use
> anything
> > but latest SASS3 (ie .scss). So no problem I thought, I just integrated
> > WRO4J as a separate filter since for now, we only allow him to touch the
> > static pages but he's already eying the T5 templates so would be cool to
> > have on-the-fly SASS support in T5.4 just by dropping in a library. Btw,
> > his take on Less was that yeah, that's like SASS1. Apparently eons ago,
> > practically stone age.
> >
> > Kalle
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I really want to support SASS or equivalent.  In fact, I want to look
> > > into an integration with this:
> > >
> > > http://code.google.com/p/wro4j/wiki/Features
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Josh Canfield <joshcanfi...@gmail.com
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > >> I wonder if there's any interest in an alternate, non-XML template
> > > >> format
> > > >
> > > > Not for generating (X)HTML.
> > > >
> > > > What about but something like LessCSS (http://lesscss.org/)?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <
> hls...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >> I wonder if there's any interest in an alternate, non-XML template
> > > >> format ... something like YAML, HAML or Scalate?  It would be super
> > > >> easy to implement.  Obviously, for 5.4 or later.
> > > >>
> > > >> Might be fun to take a few pages and component templates and create
> > > >> mockups of an alternate format.
> > > >>
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