Re: [xwiki-devs] Future of Flamingo, Bootstrap and Less in XWiki

Hi all and thanks for your feedbacks. I fully agree on the fact that having multiple css preprocessors is a good thing. I didn't want to propose to replace LESS by SASS (except for the writing of the new skin) and I think we could have both. The only thing that would not work anymore, is the ability to use the bootstrap functions in a SSX object using LESS. It's obvious since Bootstrap is not written with less anymore, but in my opinion, it was the main strength of our solution. Also, every extension that was using bootstrap features in a SSX would be broken. Regarding the tweet that Vincent have posted, I think it shows how superficial is the consideration for retro-compatibility in the bootstrap's team. They haven't switched to Sass because Sass is better or Less is not sufficient for they needs, but just because they wanted to change! So now, every projects that want to upgrade have to rewrite everything in Sass, and the next time, it will be PostCSS! Since we love creating software for the long-term, it's a very bad point. Guillaume