[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):

 yoavf: This is fantastic. Let's start looking at how we can fix up the
 sprites. At some point soon I suggest we commit this and get it out there
 so others can see what's broken and contribute.

 I think grunt-cssjanus should be in devDependencies in package.json. But
 that might actually lead to a larger issue, that maybe it *isn't* just a
 development dependency, as RTL is not usable without building. When we did
 develop.svn, we wanted /src to be able to be executable as-is. This was
 really important as we didn't want to make it more difficult to
 contribute, and we also wanted to make it easy to run a "development"
 version of WordPress, as in no need to even turn on SCRIPT_DEBUG.
 koopersmith can talk a bit more about this, and I've let him know about
 this thread.

 The issue here is that you can't run /src in RTL, unless we also committed
 the built RTL files to /src. We've previously discussed this for things
 like a CSS preprocessor. If we adopted, say, SCSS, we would still want to
 commit the compiled CSS to /src. It's possible that in this case we'd
 still want to commit the -rtl.css files to core. The problem is we'd then
 be conflating raw source with some kind of build output. So let's see what
 koopersmith thinks.

 A note though, this by no means prevents this from occurring for 3.7, nor
 does it really affect the current patches or any future work on this
 project. It just affects our future workflows.

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