Allow LESS css files for compression that will be used on the client about django-compressor HOT 2 CLOSED

I'm not convinced that this should be an own feature of the compressor, but you can override the used CSS compressor class with the COMPRESSOR_CSS_COMPRESSOR setting. Refactoring the default CssCompressor class to easier define what should be considered a file to compress wouldn't be hard (e.g. elem_<elem_name> method hooks that could be re-implemented in an own subclass).

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This is what I actually ended up doing. It was basically the exact same as the CssProcessor but allowing stylesheet/less when parsing the files and a new template that outputs the link element with a rel="stylesheet/less". This worked really well and allowed the less.js file to parse the resulting compressed file.

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