Alternatives to django-media-bundler

Apparently I didn't do a good enough job Googling for other projects when I wrote django-media-bundler. If you Google for django concatenate javsacript or django minify javascript there are a number of other projects that do similar things, each with different tradeoffs:

• django-mediacat: To use this tool, you descibe your JS packages in Django models using the django-admin interface. You then configure a URL to point at the mediacat.views.cat view function, and pass it the package names you want as GET arguments. mediacat then caches the resulting file in the database model, and sends the appropriate ETags and Last-Modified tags to make the browser cache the request contents. Last updated: 2008-11-02
  
• django-compress: This tool can be configured to automatically regenerate its bundles by checking the file modification times of the original source files. Obviously, if you're using a content distribution network or a cookieless static domain, this feature might not work out of the box, but if you're a small-time operation, this is nice. It also allows versioning the filenames of the bundles so that when you have new bundles they will bust the browser cache. You can also use the YUI compression tools if available, and finally django-compress has a templatetag that will source the compressed script if compression is enabled, or the individual source files if disabled. Finally, I'd like to point out that this project looks the most mature, as it was started on 2008-04-28, and it has a well-written wiki and not just a README. Last updated: 2008-12-05
• django-compact: Looks like it's not quite finished yet, but so far it looks like its main feature is the templatetags that will link to individual script sources or the bundle. Last updated: 2009-01-30
  
• django-assets: Has Jinja 2 templatetags, and supports automatic regeneration of bundles based on file mtime. Bundles are defined inline in the templates instead of in a central configuration. This seems less good to me, because you want to keep the number of different bundles small, so that the user only has to download one script bundle. Sometimes you want more than one because a particular page has a lot of JS, but usually you want all JS to be cached after the first page load. Last updated: 2009-02-08
  
• django-assetpackager: This tool supports cache busting by putting the bundle generation timestamp in the bundle filename. It also has a templatetag that will source individual scripts in debug mode and just the bundle in production mode. Last updated: 2008-06-21
• Finally, django-media-bundler: While somewhat unrelated to concatenating and minifying JavaScript and CSS, my project supports image spriting, which is a pain to do by hand. It also employs an interesting little heuristic 2-D bin packing algorithm to try and arrange the images into a square-ish rectangle of minimal area. It has templatetags like a couple of the others, but it doesn't have cache busting. That's an important feature I'd like to add. The auto-regeneration I'm not convinced about, because it breaks down when you're not using a simple single-server setup. Also, it means that your templatetag has to do a bunch of file system calls while its rendering the template, which isn't a terrible idea, but it feels less than perfect. Last updated: 2009-02-15

Having browsed the source trees of each of these projects, in my (biased, of course) opinion the best tools here are django-compress and django-media-bundler. django-compress is mature and has the most JS & CSS bundling features, while the media-bundler is simpler (which can be good) and has image spriting.