Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2015-03-05 Thread Sergiu Dumitriu
+0.

On 03/03/2015 10:59 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
 +0
 
 Thanks,
 Marius
 
 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
 gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
 Some news.

 Less4j 1.9.0 has been released recently and fixes the blocker points we had
 before.

 At first, I wanted to add an option to be able to chose which version we
 want to use in XWiki: the official lessjs or the java port less4j.

 But I have changed my mind since lessjs have a lot of limitations that
 less4j does not:

 - it only handle files, so when I want to include a template (from a skin
 document for example), I have to create a temporary directory and to put a
 copy of this template there. It is not clean and complicated to maintain
 [1].
 - it has some bugs that less4j does not [2].
 - we are currently blocked to the version 1.7.x because recent versions of
 lessjs does not work with Rhino [3].

 On the other hand, using Less4j is really simple and faster.

 So I update the proposal and I propose now to only use Less4j and get rid
 of the lessjs/rhino solution.

 Here is my +1

 Thanks,
 Guillaume

 [1]:
 https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-6.4.2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-lesscss/xwiki-platform-lesscss-default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/lesscss/internal/compiler/CachedIntegratedLESSCompiler.java#L103
 [2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
 [3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2015-03-03 Thread Thomas Mortagne
+1, I think we already discussed this some time ago but maybe it was
only the two of us

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
 Some news.

 Less4j 1.9.0 has been released recently and fixes the blocker points we had
 before.

 At first, I wanted to add an option to be able to chose which version we
 want to use in XWiki: the official lessjs or the java port less4j.

 But I have changed my mind since lessjs have a lot of limitations that
 less4j does not:

 - it only handle files, so when I want to include a template (from a skin
 document for example), I have to create a temporary directory and to put a
 copy of this template there. It is not clean and complicated to maintain
 [1].
 - it has some bugs that less4j does not [2].
 - we are currently blocked to the version 1.7.x because recent versions of
 lessjs does not work with Rhino [3].

 On the other hand, using Less4j is really simple and faster.

 So I update the proposal and I propose now to only use Less4j and get rid
 of the lessjs/rhino solution.

 Here is my +1

 Thanks,
 Guillaume

 [1]:
 https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-6.4.2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-lesscss/xwiki-platform-lesscss-default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/lesscss/internal/compiler/CachedIntegratedLESSCompiler.java#L103
 [2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
 [3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs



-- 
Thomas Mortagne
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2015-03-03 Thread Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
Some news.

Less4j 1.9.0 has been released recently and fixes the blocker points we had
before.

At first, I wanted to add an option to be able to chose which version we
want to use in XWiki: the official lessjs or the java port less4j.

But I have changed my mind since lessjs have a lot of limitations that
less4j does not:

- it only handle files, so when I want to include a template (from a skin
document for example), I have to create a temporary directory and to put a
copy of this template there. It is not clean and complicated to maintain
[1].
- it has some bugs that less4j does not [2].
- we are currently blocked to the version 1.7.x because recent versions of
lessjs does not work with Rhino [3].

On the other hand, using Less4j is really simple and faster.

So I update the proposal and I propose now to only use Less4j and get rid
of the lessjs/rhino solution.

Here is my +1

Thanks,
Guillaume

[1]:
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-6.4.2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-lesscss/xwiki-platform-lesscss-default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/lesscss/internal/compiler/CachedIntegratedLESSCompiler.java#L103
[2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
[3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2015-03-03 Thread Marius Dumitru Florea
+0

Thanks,
Marius

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
 Some news.

 Less4j 1.9.0 has been released recently and fixes the blocker points we had
 before.

 At first, I wanted to add an option to be able to chose which version we
 want to use in XWiki: the official lessjs or the java port less4j.

 But I have changed my mind since lessjs have a lot of limitations that
 less4j does not:

 - it only handle files, so when I want to include a template (from a skin
 document for example), I have to create a temporary directory and to put a
 copy of this template there. It is not clean and complicated to maintain
 [1].
 - it has some bugs that less4j does not [2].
 - we are currently blocked to the version 1.7.x because recent versions of
 lessjs does not work with Rhino [3].

 On the other hand, using Less4j is really simple and faster.

 So I update the proposal and I propose now to only use Less4j and get rid
 of the lessjs/rhino solution.

 Here is my +1

 Thanks,
 Guillaume

 [1]:
 https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-6.4.2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-lesscss/xwiki-platform-lesscss-default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/lesscss/internal/compiler/CachedIntegratedLESSCompiler.java#L103
 [2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
 [3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2015-03-03 Thread Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
+0

Thanks,
Caty

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea 
mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com wrote:

 +0

 Thanks,
 Marius

 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
 gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
  Some news.
 
  Less4j 1.9.0 has been released recently and fixes the blocker points we
 had
  before.
 
  At first, I wanted to add an option to be able to chose which version we
  want to use in XWiki: the official lessjs or the java port less4j.
 
  But I have changed my mind since lessjs have a lot of limitations that
  less4j does not:
 
  - it only handle files, so when I want to include a template (from a skin
  document for example), I have to create a temporary directory and to put
 a
  copy of this template there. It is not clean and complicated to maintain
  [1].
  - it has some bugs that less4j does not [2].
  - we are currently blocked to the version 1.7.x because recent versions
 of
  lessjs does not work with Rhino [3].
 
  On the other hand, using Less4j is really simple and faster.
 
  So I update the proposal and I propose now to only use Less4j and get rid
  of the lessjs/rhino solution.
 
  Here is my +1
 
  Thanks,
  Guillaume
 
  [1]:
 
 https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-6.4.2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-lesscss/xwiki-platform-lesscss-default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/lesscss/internal/compiler/CachedIntegratedLESSCompiler.java#L103
  [2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
  [3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
  ___
  devs mailing list
  devs@xwiki.org
  http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2015-03-03 Thread Denis Gervalle
+1 I trust you :)

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) vali...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 +0

 Thanks,
 Caty

 On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea 
 mariusdumitru.flo...@xwiki.com wrote:

  +0
 
  Thanks,
  Marius
 
  On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
  gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
   Some news.
  
   Less4j 1.9.0 has been released recently and fixes the blocker points we
  had
   before.
  
   At first, I wanted to add an option to be able to chose which version
 we
   want to use in XWiki: the official lessjs or the java port less4j.
  
   But I have changed my mind since lessjs have a lot of limitations that
   less4j does not:
  
   - it only handle files, so when I want to include a template (from a
 skin
   document for example), I have to create a temporary directory and to
 put
  a
   copy of this template there. It is not clean and complicated to
 maintain
   [1].
   - it has some bugs that less4j does not [2].
   - we are currently blocked to the version 1.7.x because recent versions
  of
   lessjs does not work with Rhino [3].
  
   On the other hand, using Less4j is really simple and faster.
  
   So I update the proposal and I propose now to only use Less4j and get
 rid
   of the lessjs/rhino solution.
  
   Here is my +1
  
   Thanks,
   Guillaume
  
   [1]:
  
 
 https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/xwiki-platform-6.4.2/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-lesscss/xwiki-platform-lesscss-default/src/main/java/org/xwiki/lesscss/internal/compiler/CachedIntegratedLESSCompiler.java#L103
   [2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
   [3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
   ___
   devs mailing list
   devs@xwiki.org
   http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
  ___
  devs mailing list
  devs@xwiki.org
  http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
 
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs




-- 
Denis Gervalle
SOFTEC sa - CEO
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2014-12-18 Thread Thomas Mortagne
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
 Hi developers.

 I have recently implemented the ability to use LESS in SSX:
 http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10708.

 This feature has pointed me out some bugs, that are reported upstream:
 https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1878
 https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968

 I have tried to implement a workaround, but as a result, it is preventing
 us to use an important feature of LESS: .extend(). And it simply breaks the
 Caty work on the Menu Application.

 Moreover, LESS has been rewritten in version 2. But because of this
 refactoring, the Rhino version does not work. See:
 https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316

 So we are stuck with the current version of LESS, with the bugs listed
 above (that I am not able to patch).

 But in parallel, I have worked to use LESS4j instead of the official LESS
 project (http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11034). And today, I finally
 managed to make it work!

 The good news is that LESS4j does not have the bugs that are blocking us.

 I propose to commit this for 6.4M2 (before tomorrow), and we can still
 revert it afterwards.

 Advantages of LESS4j:
 * should be quicker (see:
 https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/less-vs-sass-benchmark)
 * does not have the bugs listed above
 * we can hope that the version 2 will be ported to LESS4j too.

 Drawbacks of LESS4j:
 * maintained by only one developer (but reactive when I report bugs)
 * not exactly the same behaviour than LESS:
 https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/wiki/Differences-Between-Less.js-and-Less4j
 * maybe the error messages are less kindly than lessjs ones.

 My implementation is configurable: an administrator can decide to use the
 LESS official version by changing a property in xwiki.properties. I just
 propose to have LESS4j by default.

 Here is my +1.

 Thanks,
 --
 Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhum...@xwiki.com)
 Research  Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
 Committer on the XWiki.org project
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

+1

-- 
Thomas Mortagne
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2014-12-18 Thread Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
Some news about that.

After having done more tests (most of them with the new improvements on the
Menu Application done by Caty http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11408), I
have reached 2 bugs on less4j:
- https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/issues/246
- https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/issues/247

The second bugs breaks XWIKI-11408.

On the other hand, the current implementation, with the official lessjs
compiler, breaks XWIKI-11408 too.

Fortunately, Caty managed to re-write XWIKI-11408 with the limitation that
I have introduced previously (not using .extend()) with lessjs. The result
is not as good as her previous shot but this is the best we can do now.

So I update my proposal and I now propose to put less4j by default as soon
as they fix the blocking issue, so that we can put back the first version
of the Caty's work and enjoy it.

Sorry for all these changes, I really wanted to commit something good
before M2, but since we are probably going to have a M3, we will have some
air to tests things serenely.

Thanks,
Guillaume

2014-12-18 10:50 GMT+01:00 Thomas Mortagne thomas.morta...@xwiki.com:

 On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
 gdelhum...@xwiki.com wrote:
  Hi developers.
 
  I have recently implemented the ability to use LESS in SSX:
  http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10708.
 
  This feature has pointed me out some bugs, that are reported upstream:
  https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1878
  https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
 
  I have tried to implement a workaround, but as a result, it is preventing
  us to use an important feature of LESS: .extend(). And it simply breaks
 the
  Caty work on the Menu Application.
 
  Moreover, LESS has been rewritten in version 2. But because of this
  refactoring, the Rhino version does not work. See:
  https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
 
  So we are stuck with the current version of LESS, with the bugs listed
  above (that I am not able to patch).
 
  But in parallel, I have worked to use LESS4j instead of the official LESS
  project (http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11034). And today, I finally
  managed to make it work!
 
  The good news is that LESS4j does not have the bugs that are blocking us.
 
  I propose to commit this for 6.4M2 (before tomorrow), and we can still
  revert it afterwards.
 
  Advantages of LESS4j:
  * should be quicker (see:
  https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/less-vs-sass-benchmark)
  * does not have the bugs listed above
  * we can hope that the version 2 will be ported to LESS4j too.
 
  Drawbacks of LESS4j:
  * maintained by only one developer (but reactive when I report bugs)
  * not exactly the same behaviour than LESS:
 
 https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/wiki/Differences-Between-Less.js-and-Less4j
  * maybe the error messages are less kindly than lessjs ones.
 
  My implementation is configurable: an administrator can decide to use the
  LESS official version by changing a property in xwiki.properties. I just
  propose to have LESS4j by default.
 
  Here is my +1.
 
  Thanks,
  --
  Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhum...@xwiki.com)
  Research  Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
  Committer on the XWiki.org project
  ___
  devs mailing list
  devs@xwiki.org
  http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

 +1

 --
 Thomas Mortagne
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs



-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhum...@xwiki.com)
Research  Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2014-12-17 Thread Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau
Hi developers.

I have recently implemented the ability to use LESS in SSX:
http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10708.

This feature has pointed me out some bugs, that are reported upstream:
https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1878
https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968

I have tried to implement a workaround, but as a result, it is preventing
us to use an important feature of LESS: .extend(). And it simply breaks the
Caty work on the Menu Application.

Moreover, LESS has been rewritten in version 2. But because of this
refactoring, the Rhino version does not work. See:
https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316

So we are stuck with the current version of LESS, with the bugs listed
above (that I am not able to patch).

But in parallel, I have worked to use LESS4j instead of the official LESS
project (http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11034). And today, I finally
managed to make it work!

The good news is that LESS4j does not have the bugs that are blocking us.

I propose to commit this for 6.4M2 (before tomorrow), and we can still
revert it afterwards.

Advantages of LESS4j:
* should be quicker (see:
https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/less-vs-sass-benchmark)
* does not have the bugs listed above
* we can hope that the version 2 will be ported to LESS4j too.

Drawbacks of LESS4j:
* maintained by only one developer (but reactive when I report bugs)
* not exactly the same behaviour than LESS:
https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/wiki/Differences-Between-Less.js-and-Less4j
* maybe the error messages are less kindly than lessjs ones.

My implementation is configurable: an administrator can decide to use the
LESS official version by changing a property in xwiki.properties. I just
propose to have LESS4j by default.

Here is my +1.

Thanks,
-- 
Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhum...@xwiki.com)
Research  Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs


Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Using Less4j by default in XWiki

2014-12-17 Thread Jean SIMARD
Since it will be easy to switch back to other implementations.  Here is my +1
too.
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 05:04:19PM +0100, Guillaume Louis-Marie Delhumeau 
wrote:
 Hi developers.
 
 I have recently implemented the ability to use LESS in SSX:
 http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-10708.
 
 This feature has pointed me out some bugs, that are reported upstream:
 https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1878
 https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968
 
 I have tried to implement a workaround, but as a result, it is preventing
 us to use an important feature of LESS: .extend(). And it simply breaks the
 Caty work on the Menu Application.
 
 Moreover, LESS has been rewritten in version 2. But because of this
 refactoring, the Rhino version does not work. See:
 https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316
 
 So we are stuck with the current version of LESS, with the bugs listed
 above (that I am not able to patch).
 
 But in parallel, I have worked to use LESS4j instead of the official LESS
 project (http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-11034). And today, I finally
 managed to make it work!
 
 The good news is that LESS4j does not have the bugs that are blocking us.
 
 I propose to commit this for 6.4M2 (before tomorrow), and we can still
 revert it afterwards.
 
 Advantages of LESS4j:
 * should be quicker (see:
 https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/less-vs-sass-benchmark)
 * does not have the bugs listed above
 * we can hope that the version 2 will be ported to LESS4j too.
 
 Drawbacks of LESS4j:
 * maintained by only one developer (but reactive when I report bugs)
 * not exactly the same behaviour than LESS:
 https://github.com/SomMeri/less4j/wiki/Differences-Between-Less.js-and-Less4j
 * maybe the error messages are less kindly than lessjs ones.
 
 My implementation is configurable: an administrator can decide to use the
 LESS official version by changing a property in xwiki.properties. I just
 propose to have LESS4j by default.
 
 Here is my +1.
 
 Thanks,
 -- 
 Guillaume Delhumeau (gdelhum...@xwiki.com)
 Research  Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
 Committer on the XWiki.org project
 ___
 devs mailing list
 devs@xwiki.org
 http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

-- 
Jean Simard
jean.sim...@xwiki.com
Research engineer at XWiki SAS
http://www.xwiki.com
Committer on the XWiki.org project
http://www.xwiki.org
___
devs mailing list
devs@xwiki.org
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs