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[Devin Carlen <devin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Long story short - we will work to make node.js an optional build time component and leave it as an distro packaging issue.  node.js was being evaluated as a potential solution to https://blueprints.launchpad.net/horizon/+spec/realtime-communication, but that blueprint isn't targeted for Folsom, so it's very future.  We'll have a lot of time to evaluate python based alternatives.


Devin


On May 29, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Adam Young wrote:

> 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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