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

+0 Thanks, Marius On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Guillaume "Louis-Marie" Delhumeau <gdelhumeau(a)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-pla… > [2]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/1968 > [3]: https://github.com/less/less.js/issues/2316