lessphp is falling off, preparing for alternatives - how?

[lkraav]

thom4parisot/wp-less#53 has an overview of the situation. leafo/lessphp seems to be dying.

[meitzner-hannes]

It is. You can specify less.php as drop-in.

By the way, it seams to me that there is an bug regarding this.
In the "lib/Compiler.class.php" File will be checked if the the global "WP_LESS_COMPILER" is set.
But as far as I can see this Global never gets set, not even a default.
Also the same file second line "$compiler = 'lessphp';" never get used, is it?

Found that today as lessphp fails to compile my less files using the Semantic Grid System.
Hopefully less.php does a better job :)
But it seams so.

Greetings!

[lkraav]

README doesn't state how to switch between compiler implementations. Maybe you want to open a pull request with an added instruction how you do it?

[roborourke]

I think the way the uses of preprocessors is going it'd be be better to put
the time into making an easy install gulp.js implementation that can be
applied to a WP implementation.

[lkraav]

Geez, I'm having a hard time staying up to date with all these *js new technologies :) Going to google gulp js now..

EDIT mmmkay. I for one have no idea how to set that up here.

[lkraav]

https://github.com/bassjobsen/wp-lesscss

[jeremyhaile]

@lkraav is there a way to use wp-lesscss as an alternative compiler? I can't find any instructions. Also - is there any way to use the native less compiler rather than a PHP version? I'd be totally happy just having a plugin that ran "lessc" on the server to compile LESS files when they update.

[jeremyhaile]

For example, I really want to use LESS' @import (inline) "my.css" but it isn't supported by lessphp.

[lkraav]

Haven't had any time to upgrade myself yet either, still running on stock for now, since I don't actually require anything better right at this moment.

[lkraav]

It looks like it is as easy as changing the require section in composer.json

"oyejorge/less.php": "~1.5"

Then "composer update" will drop-in replace leafo with less.php

[lkraav]

I'm noticing I have to use quoted url() notation with the new parser

url("@{themeurl}/img/something.jpg")

or @{themeurl} will not get parsed. Otherwise things seem nice. I'm able to nicely inline @import a filename passed via "less_vars" filter, so I'd say #23 can be solved by switching the parser.

[roborourke]

@lkraav or @scottsweb would you be able to get a PR ready on this repo for this? Don't have much time at the mo!

[vburlak]

@scottsweb thx a lot for reference.

Had an errors with compilation latest bootstrap 3.3.4 via lessphp.
Then, tested your fork with less.php compiler — and all compiled well.