Deprecation plans

[stof]

Now that libsass is deprecated, what are the plans for this project ? Should it be marked as deprecated as well ?

[januszm]

Is there any existing or potential replacement for this gem for Rails, apart from changing things completely and compiling css with Webpack using Dart-Sass? Currently there seems to be a problem with a long compile time (approx. 2 minutes) and this has been going on for almost 2 years. There are suggestions for solutions like amalgamate or shipping precompiled , but from what I can see they are not merged and updated for a long time.
#132
sass/libsass#2979
sass/sassc-rails#152
sass/sassc-rails#151
#189 (comment)

[cyclotron3k]

libsass is deprecated and all development efforts were focused onto Dart Sass which is still alive and well. I just noticed that Dart programs can be compiled to native executables. Perhaps sassc-ruby can be distributed with precompiled Dart Sassc binaries? (In the same way that wkhtmltopdf-binary is distributed with precompiled binaries?)

[stof]

@cyclotron3k sassc-ruby does not use the sassc executable. It uses the libsass C library through FFI.

The replacement will more likely be dart-sass-embedded, for which a Ruby host is in progress at https://github.com/ntkme/sass-embedded-host-ruby

[javierav]

@stof any idea on how use this gem in the assets pipeline?

[ntkme]

New apps are recommended to migrate to sass-embedded.

For existing apps you can use sassc-embedded as a drop in replacement for sassc.

See https://github.com/ntkme/sassc-embedded-shim-ruby for details.

[jacob-carlborg-apoex]

I think https://github.com/rails/dartsass-rails is the official replacement from Rails' point of view.

[ntkme]

I think https://github.com/rails/dartsass-rails is the official replacement from Rails' point of view.

The rails team is moving away from sprockets. Doing so comes with the cost of missing features, such as custom sass functions in Ruby that many existing projects rely on. The purpose of the shim is to help existing projects to migrate.

Update: dartsass-rails now uses the dart-sass binary provided by sass-embedded gem so it's always up to update.

[johnnyshields]

I've have made PR #240 which merges @ntkme 's dart-sass shim code into this repo. That PR branch is now being used successfully at TableCheck and Discourse.

I'd like to propose to nominate new maintainers for this gem so that we can continue to support it. I'm willing to be an interim maintainer if no one else is available.