Ok, we've had another round of review and updates, and it sounds like
people are pretty content with the functionality and the conventions we're
coming up with around LESS usage; and I don't hear many strong objections.

If there's no last-minute surprises from anybody, I'll drop the +2 hammer
on the core support <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78669/> later
today, and folks can start using it.

-- brion


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Ori Livneh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I personally think it'd be unfortunate for this current effort to
> > collapse
> > > over such considerations, but I'm obviously biased.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, I certainly agree.  For my part, I'm satisfied that the
> > LESS/Sass/stylus issues have been adequately thought through (maybe some
> of
> > this can make it back into the RfC).  The
> > http://leafo.net/lessphp/docs/#custom_functions stuff looks very
> > promising,
> > it probably should be explicitly mentioned in any "LESS for MW" docs we
> > write.  I look forward to seeing the @import guidelines as well.
> >  --scott
>
>
> Heartily agree as well.  I alluded to this in my longer answer.  Basically
> Stylus/SASS do seem to be slightly ahead of LESS but it's a vanishing
> difference and meaningLESS over the long term.
>
> > The biggest gains to be had from using a CSS
> > preprocessor tend to come from the most
> > basic features
>
> This I think is a most astute point from Ori.  It's why I made the analogy
> to Coco.  I don't and never will use any of the complicated crazy Coco
> constructs.  But writing class LineNode extends TimeseriesNode instead of
> all the JS boilerplate for classes and inheritance is good.
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