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[Adam Young <ayoung@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/29/2012 12:29 PM, Gabriel Hurley wrote:
> Without rehashing backstory which is available in public archives of this thread, while node is currently on the table for LESS it also may play a role
> in future needs as well.
>
> As for your link, yes there are LESS compilers in other languages (there's even a nascent one in Python that's very much not ready for prime time) but requiring PHP or any other language besides Python opens a similar can of worms, and PHP gets us nowhere on any other fronts.
>
> /me refrains from any other comments about PHP.
>
> Moreover, the canonical LESS compiler which is the best supported and most stable is the main one written for node.js. Unless there were a 100% working Python version I see no reason not to favor the "real" LESS compiler.
>
> All the best,

For LESS,  it think it is fine to use even server side Javascript.  The 
CSS should be compiled at RPM/DEB build time, and not at run time for 
live deployments,  so that is a bit of a non-issue.  I'd also be fine 
with using the client side LESS implementation, especially if we want to 
use the same implementation at development and live deployment time,  
but I can understand if there are issues with doing this.


Node.js is a whole different server side technology,  and that should 
not be implemented at this time.


>      - Gabriel
>
> On May 29, 2012, at 1:00 AM, "Matthias Runge"<mrunge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > On 28/05/12 16:21, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > > John Postlethwait wrote:
> > > > Sorry if I've missed anything below, this thread has become rather
> > > > fragmented and messy (at least in my email clients) but I will try to
> > > > address the main points I have seen so far:
> > Sorry, if I jump in late in this thread, I may have skipped some basics.
> > If I get it right, nodejs is just required to compile LESS to css, right?
> >
> > There is at least one alternative without requiring nodejs:
> >
> > https://github.com/leafo/lessphp
> > --
> > Matthias Runge<mrunge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
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