This feature introduces the concept of themes. Themes are an evolution
of site customizations.
Themes introduce two very big conceptual changes:
- A theme may include other "child themes", children can include grand
children and so on.
- A theme may specify a color scheme
The change does away with the idea of "enabled" color schemes.
It also adds a bunch of big niceties like
- You can source a theme from a git repo
- History for themes is much improved
- You can only have a single enabled theme. Themes can be selected by
users, if you opt for it.
On a technical level this change comes with a whole bunch of goodies
- All CSS is now compiled using a custom pipeline that uses libsass
see /lib/stylesheet
- There is a single pipeline for css compilation (in the past we used
one for customizations and another one for the rest of the app
- The stylesheet pipeline is now divorced of sprockets, there is no
reliance on sprockets for CSS bundling
- CSS is generated with source maps everywhere (including themes) this
makes debugging much easier
- Our "live reloader" is smarter and avoid a flash of unstyled content
we run a file watcher in "puma" in dev so you no longer need to run
rake autospec to watch for CSS changes
The "-k" option tells gzip to keep the original files intact and is an
alternative to `gzip -c file > file.gz`. It was implemented in 2013:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=0192f02
There are a few popular operating systems (ie, Red Hat 7, Debian Wheezy)
whose version of gzip does not have the "-k" option. Compiling assets
breaks on these operating systems. Using "-c" instead ensures that it
works even with older versions of gzip.
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