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[Kiall Mac Innes <kiall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Gabriel Hurley
<Gabriel.Hurley@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> 4. LESS for dev, commit compiled files: I veto'd this one in Horizon's
> discussions. I've played this game being a committer for Django when we
> tried to maintain both "development" and "production" versions of the
> admin's javascript files. It was a nightmare trying to do due diligence on
> contributions to make sure they were always in sync, etc. It's also an
> added burden on the developers to understand this process and always adhere
> to updating both files. All in all, not a scenario I support in any way
> shape or form.
>

Is there another option that has been overlooked? using less.js in
development, and providing a flag to switch to using a pre-compiled file.

At that point, the .css file can be generated by either the tarball script
on Jenkins, or by the distro's themselves however they wish.

Thanks,
Kiall