[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #24977: Workflow change: automate RTL css generation

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#24977: Workflow change: automate RTL css generation
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 Reporter:  yoavf           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.7
Component:  General         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
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Comment (by nacin):

 Replying to [comment:25 mark-k]:
 > Replying to [comment:24 helen]:
 > > Replying to [comment:23 mark-k]:
 > > > Well, then why can't I find the minification tool neither in google
 nor in trac? It is kind of pointless to have a source code if I don't have
 the compiler used to create the executable.
 > >
 > > Right now it uses the YUI Compressor. I imagine it's not in the
 develop repo yet because that repo is just a couple days old and tools and
 such are still under development. This isn't some magical "here it's
 already done" process. Tools are developed just as core is developed.
 > >
 >
 > I don't want to argue philosophy here as don't care about GPL and prefer
 BSD, but the GPL way implies that you need to specify all the build tools
 required and the minimizer was used for years without any documentation.

 So, two points:

  1. As of 3.7, YUI Compressor is no longer used, and bumpbot is in
 retirement. uglify.js and cssmin are now leveraged via grunt. These are
 external dependencies as per Gruntfile.js, and are themselves open source
 software of course.

  2. http://wordpress.org/download/source/ is linked from the bottom of
 core's license.txt (as a written offer, as allowed by the GPL, for source
 items where only the built version is shipped). That page does mention YUI
 Compressor.

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