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  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-61394

Add an experimental feature to allow the use of SassC for scss compilation

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    • MOODLE_35_STABLE
    • MOODLE_35_STABLE
    • MDL-61394-master
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      Prerequisites

      The SassC compiler installed somewhere on your system (instructions here: https://github.com/sass/sassc)

      1. Log in as admin and browse to "Site administration" > "Development" > "Experimental" > "Experimental settings"
      2. Enter the path to the sassc binary
      3. Browse to "Site administration" > "Appearance" > "Themes" > "Boost"
      4. Change the brand colour and press "Save settings"
      5. Verify that the site's brand colour has changed and that there are no scss errors in your apache log (you might have to refresh the page again for the colour to change
      6. Repeat the above with an RTL language installed
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      Prerequisites The SassC compiler installed somewhere on your system (instructions here: https://github.com/sass/sassc ) Log in as admin and browse to "Site administration" > "Development" > "Experimental" > "Experimental settings" Enter the path to the sassc binary Browse to "Site administration" > "Appearance" > "Themes" > "Boost" Change the brand colour and press "Save settings" Verify that the site's brand colour has changed and that there are no scss errors in your apache log (you might have to refresh the page again for the colour to change Repeat the above with an RTL language installed

    Description

      The PHP compiler is expensive and causes problems in cloud environments. It would be cool to be able to specify the path to SassC - which is a compiler written in C that uses the defacto libsass library.

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          caused a regression

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-64564 SCSS theme setting validation different when using $CFG->pathtosassc

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Open
          has a non-specific relationship to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-68884 Debugging output in the middle of phpunit (windows) test

          • Critical - Crashes server, loss of data, severe memory leak
          • Development in progress
          has been marked as being related by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-57875 SCSS PHP compiler does not support the '@import url' at-rule.

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Open
          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents Moodle from functioning correctly. MDL-58610 invalid .css/.scss in theme/boost/moodle/forms.scss

          • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
          • Closed

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              cameron1729 cameron1729
              cameron1729 cameron1729
              Ryan Wyllie Ryan Wyllie
              Andrew Lyons Andrew Lyons
              Bas Brands Bas Brands
              David Woloszyn, Huong Nguyen, Jake Dallimore, Meirza, Michael Hawkins, Raquel Ortega, Safat Shahin, Stevani Andolo, Huong Nguyen, Bas Brands, Mathew May
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                17/May/18