[Community] New OpenLayers buildout recipe

[Sean Gillies]

I'd heard Whit mention jstools, but had no idea there was a buildout  
recipe in it, or that it had anything to do with OpenLayers.

Sean

On Jun 8, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Tim Schaub wrote:

> Hey-
>
> Sean Gillies wrote:
>> In version 2.8, a full OpenLayers.js is 720KB, ~200KB after gzipping.
>> You'll only use a fraction of that code in a small application. I
>> think that zc.buildout could be a nice tool for managing the builds  
>> of
>> multiple custom profiles of OpenLayers.js and have written a recipe
>> (based on Kai's hexagonit.recipe.cmmi) to help.
>>
>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zgeo.recipe.openlayers/
>>
>
> See also http://pypi.python.org/pypi/JSTools/0.1.3a
>
> I didn't look closely enough to see how the two might be related,  
> and I
> don't know much about zc.buildout, but I know jstools is intended to  
> be
> used with it.
>
> http://github.com/whitmo/jstools/blob/74ba77952abaef4059a8ea3ba19ba145947ceceb/jstools/bo.txt
>
> Perhaps you're already aware of this.
>
> Subset of benefits to using JSTools:
>
> * better compression through obfuscation with YUICompressor
> * plans to add more cool stuff to it
>
> Tim
>
>> It has some downloads already. By whom, I wonder?
>>
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