Bower does not fetch less files

[salarmehr]

Getting the package using bower, does not download the less files. What is the correct way to use bower and have less files?

[c0bra]

Currently the bower repo doesn't include less files. There have been requests from different people to either include them or leave them out.

If anyone has comments/suggestions for making everyone happy please add a comment here.

[PaulL1]

@c0bra, I don't see what harm could be caused by including the less files in the bower repository. People who don't want to use them don't have to. It seems that where people want to override styles then having the less files gives them that ability, if we distribute only the css then it's harder.

[salarmehr]

Actually, less files are necessary for minification. ui-grid uses font-face, We need a less variable to set the vendor folder path, similar to what I do for font-awesome. Currently I have to modify ui-grid css files manually which will undo on the next bower update.

Also, including css files in a less file does not embed it, only links to it.

[salarmehr]

@c0bra Did you make any decision regarding the issue?

[JLLeitschuh]

Re opening:

• Bower still doesn't fetch less files. This may require a new release candidate?
• The release directory doesn't have the less files for the features. Have a look: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-grid.info/tree/gh-pages/release/src/less

[JLLeitschuh]

Unfortunately, this is still slightly broken.
There is currently no way to setup your npm directory so that bootstrap is in the right location so that the includes can be resolved.