There is no .NET dependency, there is a CLR dependency. If you have mono installed, you can simply put a line like this in your .bashrc, and use the compiler anywhere: (which I just did)
alias more="mono /your/path/to/More.exe"
more is a common unix program
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?more
aliasing it could interfere with some shell script
less is also a common UNIX program going back decades
Aliases shouldn't interfere with shell scripts unless you do something very silly. They're shell-local, and typically you define them in your shell's interactive-initialization file (e.g. .bashrc, .zshrc).
Right, but it will break my ability to "| more" on the command line in my interactive shell.
If there is an executable, it can be named 'morec' after less CSS' 'lessc'
Works fine under Mono, so you can OSS the whole stack even on Windows.
Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering.
It's not that I'm fear-mongering against .NET / Mono. It's more that I find the idea of having to download, install, and maintain a 1GB proprietary runtime to run a CSS preprocessor, well, preposterous. Don't worry, I have the same repulsion against Java / HotSpot.
> Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering.
Isn't what Oracle is doing more reason to be concerned about .Net? What if Microsoft failed, and the company that bought their assets rescinded the agreement they've made not to sue?
Re:More, a CSS compiler
by BerislavLopac on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:38AM
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But... but... It's Microsoft, it'll never fail!
And people will always wear hats!
The same could be said for Java. If it was up to me, my software stack would not include the JVM. Too bad there's no non-JVM alternative for Storm, and Clojure is so awesome.