On 11/08/2017 01:44 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
On 8 November 2017 at 12:37, Mads Kiilerich <[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/08/2017 08:53 AM, Andrew Shadura wrote:
Why can't use use any of the Python implementations of Less? Or use
either JS one or Python one depending on what's available?
I guess we could. I don't have an opinion on that. Those that do the work
get to decide. And I do see the value of sticking to the most commonly used
tool chain.
Well, I did submit a proof of concept using lesscpy two years ago, and
that went nowhere.
Can you find a reference to it so we can re-evaluate?
Less is one thing - then comes javascript and minifier ... and the need to
be able to use custom variables when building Bootstrap.
Does any of this need npm?
The most obvious and simple way to do it do use npm. But given enough
effort, everything can of course be done differently.
I don't think less is the problem. It comes "for free" with the solution to
some of the bigger problems:
* We "need" bits and pieces from npm packages. Primarily Bootstrap, but also
all the other front end libraries that are so hard to vendor in a GPL
compatible way.
Which bits?
jQuery, datatables, the whole list of front-end code we more or less
have vendored now.
* We thus need npm to download the packages.
* We need the right build tools for these packages ... and they also come
from npm by default (and nothing else is supported).
I don't understand what's so difficult about Lessing a bunch of files
and amalgamating them afterwards so that we absolutely have to use the
upstream's build system.
What is your concern and over-all goal? That we only use Python tools
and only have dependencies from pypi, and thus either vendor all
external dependencies or find them as source packages on pypi so we can
build it with python tooling at install time?
I would like that, but I don't think it is feasible. It would have too
much overhead and be too non-standard.
/Mads
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