JSTools is a collection of Python scripts for packaging and efficiently serving JavaScript.

Easy Install

 $ easy_install jstools

This will put the following scripts in '/your/python/distribution/bin':

 $ bin/jsbuild
 $ bin/jsmin

Depending on your system, this action may require sudo.

Environment Install

'jstools' includes a script to create a contained python environment. This script also automatically downloads the yui compressor and puts it in a place jstools can find it.

This script will turn a folder of your choice into a python environment [1] with the jstools scripts installed in a directory called 'bin':

 $ easy_install -b ./ -e jstools
 $ python jstools/install_jstools ./jsdir

This makes 'jsdir' jstools enabled with it's own 'bin'. source the script 'bin/activate', and now jsbuild and jsmin are on your path:

 $ cd jsdir
 $ . bin/activate

Requirements:

· Python