title: Compiling LESS into CSS with Gradle without installing a plug-in
body: <p>This may seem like an odd question. I want to compile LESS into CSS without installing a plug-in into my local gradle. There are several gradle plug-ins out there that compile LESS into CSS, which is great, but I would like to compile and use the plug-ins at runtime rather than install them prior.</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible? If there was a standard plug-in like for CoffeeScript, it would be no big deal and easy, but there isn't one for LESS. I'm rather new to Gradle, so I'm unsure of how to move forward. The obvious solution is to bloody install the plug-in, but given a constraint that I can't, is it possible to compile/use it at runtime?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/koenongena/lesscss-gradle-plugin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/koenongena/lesscss-gradle-plugin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/skhome/gradle-less-plugin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/skhome/gradle-less-plugin</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/msgilligan/gradle-lesscss-plugin" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/msgilligan/gradle-lesscss-plugin</a></li>
  </ul>