Tim Williams wrote:
It adds more fat to our release download. I suppose
that is why it was added to the roadmap.
I don't remember if this was ever addressed or not but I recall one of
the "issues" with forrest that came up with some of our users was the
"largeness" of the download. To ease some of that, what are thoughts
on removing (from the release):
- /etc (100K)
- /main/java (140K)
- /site-author (2.89M)
- /tools/forrestbot (865K)
- /tools/eclipse (431K)
- /tools/logos (2M) (don't know what these do, so just a guess here)
Some are to get rid of some release weight and others are to avoid
some confusion (e.g. why are you shipping .java files with a release).
Thoughts?
I did a similar analysis before the 0.6 release and before the 0.7
release. We've ever had consensus to remove other stuff, I'm really not
sure why.
I would like to see the binary distribution only include Forrest core
and the necessary tools. No plugins, no whiteboard, no forestbot, no
eclipse etc.
Plugins are auto downloaded on the first run anyway (we should provide a
separate plugins package though).
The src release should still include eveything.
Ross
