Make fonts always relative to project.less is not good idea

[normanzb]

veto to #10941 , the guy report the issue must because he is compiling with --relative-urls turned on, that's why fonts folder are relative to bootstrap.less

whether or not relative should be controlled by lessc parameter --relative-urls not by hard coding it.

it would be actually good idea to make sure fonts are relative to bootstrap.less (when --relative-urls is used) as i don't have to copy over the fonts from bower folder to project folder, a simple bower install should do the job.

@jhnns also mentioned that the change cause rootpath options useless in the thread of #10941 .

[cvrebert]

Technically, the icon font path is currently relative to the location of the generated CSS file.

[normanzb]

@cvrebert yes, and that is why i veto to the change, because it makes use of bootstrap really inconvenient, everytime a new .css is generated I have to copy over the fonts to sit aside.

[cvrebert]

All you need to do is adjust the @icon-font-path variable, which will be documented better in v3.2.0 (see #13353, #13435).
Not saying that there isn't room for improvement though.

[normanzb]

still that require changing the --modify-var, and it is not how less suggested to do and not intuitive.

• when using less people expect changing the rootpath will fix every path but in the case of bootstrap, we will have to do extra setting.

• says what if I dynamically load in all my less files rather than pre-compile them? (using less in browser ) and all my .htm files are in different folder?

  bower_component/bootstrap
  foo/a.html
  bar/foo/b.htm

  if bootstrap undo the change, all I have to do in this case is to change the path which include bootstrap ONCE each page, but now i have extra steps to make sure the modifyVars matches my bootstrap path as well.

• I am not a fan of changing the variable, because i think the variable is part of bootstrap's internal, as a well designed system, it should encapsulate and do not encourage people to modifying its internal rather than expose every piece of its internal and letting user tweak it.

maybe bootstrap has its own reason to stay as it is now, if you insist, i will close the issue, thx.

[cvrebert]

One complicating factor is that some Bower tools reorganize Bootstrap's directory structure, which can break relative path references.

[sokra]

👍 for reverting the "fix". Revert: sokra@88b3032

You'll need relative urls when @importing bootrap from other less files.

[cvrebert]

X-Ref: yatskevich/grunt-bower-task#21

[jhnns]

Nice! 👍