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madskristensen / LessCompiler

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Suggest changing 'watermark' approach to compilation #21

Closed conficient closed 4 years ago

conficient commented 4 years ago

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The 'watermark' compilation toggle seems to be very inconsistent and frustrating. Often a file is Ignored and clicking repeatedly on the watermark doesn't seem to enable compilation. It's not clear why this is - compatibility with VS 2019 perhaps? No idea.

Example: LessWatermarkBug

Could we drop the 'watermark' and perhaps use the Build Action instead, which would be simpler and more reliable.

conficient commented 4 years ago

Having looked again at this, should we be using WebCompiler and not the LessCompiler? I see more recent updates on that project and it also does LESS complilation. It's also less flaky in having a right-click compile/exclude menu option.

I've uninstalled this one in favour of WebCompiler which is much easier to use - for example when you've updated a single .less file and want to recompile just that one.