[TYPO3-v4] Include LESS in TYPO3

["Christian Müller [kitsunet]"]

On 25.06.2010 14:16, Jigal van Hemert wrote:
> Sebastian Michaelsen wrote:
>> Certainly some of you know the CSS preprocessor LESS[1].
>>
>> It enhances the possibilities of CSS by adding variables, nested
>> rules, value calculations and something they call "Mixins" (very
>> useful too).
>
> Have once briefly looked at it. There are also a lot of disadvantages we
> should consider:
> - eats resources (we're trying to make TYPO3 faster too)
> - no IDE supports the LESS syntax, so it's harder to write and easier to
> make mistakes
> - LESS does not support all kinds of proprietary CSS stuff, which we
> sometimes need to make the BE/FE look the way it must look
> - an extra compilation step (besides merge and compress) makes it harder
> to debug CSS with browser tools like Firebug, IE developer tools, etc.
>
> (the website already listed the advantages... :-) )
>
> This is just my personal opinion.
>

I would leave it as extra package (extension) anyway. Not so many people 
use/need it.