Unable to upgrade to NLSClientScript v6 from v5

[fortm]

With Yii 1.1.14 code base, I am using NLSClientScript v5.0 and it works well , but i needed to merge js and css files into one file and minify them.

The way I am using Yii is i have not used Yii ajaxButtons but instead all Controllers return HTML as JSON payload and then in client side - jquery onSuccess function does $("#div").html(data.page)

I have tried in vain to upgrade to 6.* of NLSClientScript and many other extensions in yii. There are more than 10 YII modules and thousands of lines in Javascript that I inherited with my project to interface with YII controllers and there are some cyclic dependencies too. The Yii module classes are calling their javascripts in init()

Everything works with NLSClientscript 5 and breaks apart without it, so it is hard dependency. There is scope of improvement in javascripts written here but I badly need to upgrade to higher version of NLSCLientSript for extra optional features like CSS and JS since right now per refresh is taking +50 HTTP requests downloading JS and CSS.

Can you please assist on what could be causing hard coupling with v5 of NLSClientscript that is not upgradable.

Thanks

[fortm]

I was able to also use without issues v6 just now, but as soon as mergeJs is enabled ,then after deleting assets when I am doing full page refresh, following errors have started coming -
Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined
Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined(anonymous function)