[OH-Dev] [issue1024] For the live website, use something like lesscpy to "compile" the less files

[Asheesh Laroia]

New submission from Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>:

Right now, we use a bunch of *.less files for styling. 
(http://openhatch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/internals/front_end_style_guide.html 
discusses that ever so slightly.)

This may result in slow page loads for users, as a first time visitor's web 
browser will have to download a large number of files before laying out the 
page.

We have so far resisted the common fix for this, which is to "compile" less 
files when Django's settings.DEBUG is False. One reason for that is we have 
resisted having any non-Python dependencies.

https://github.com/lesscpy/lesscpy is a pure-Python less compiler, so we could 
perhaps use that now!

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title: For the live website, use something like lesscpy to "compile" the less files

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