Minifying a javascript library

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Mar 6 03:18:00 UTC 2015


Tom Hughes wrote:
> That may not be possible if the minimiser upstream is using is not, or
> maybe even cannot be, packaged for Fedora.

Unfortunately, the popular minifier JSMin is non-Free (it contains the "no 
evil" clause, see http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license ) and 
thus cannot be shipped in Fedora.

Minifiers available in Fedora include uglify-js and python-slimit.

        Kevin Kofler



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