Mads Kiilerich <[email protected]> schrieb am Mi., 8. Nov. 2017 um 12:37 Uhr:
> 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. > > Less is one thing - then comes javascript and minifier ... and the need > to be able to use custom variables when building Bootstrap. > > I don't think less is the problem. It comes "for free" with the solution > to some of the bigger problems: > I agree. i don't think less is a problem. Since less is the compiler I don't think we need to provide the sources for less at all. > > * 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. > In my PR, Bootstrap is the only thing that is downloaded via npm. > > * We thus need npm to download the packages. > Strictly speaking we don't need it. We could download the Bootstrap sources any way we'd like. They only need to be in the expected directory structure. > > * We need the right build tools for these packages ... and they also > come from npm by default (and nothing else is supported). > > /Mads > > _______________________________________________ > kallithea-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/kallithea-general >
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