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Shawn Heisey commented on SOLR-6806: ------------------------------------ bq. Seems like it should be vice-versa given that a war is no longer distributed? It's all making my head spin. :) I don't know where things are going to land. > Reduce the size of the main Solr binary download > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: SOLR-6806 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6806 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: Task > Components: Build > Affects Versions: 5.0 > Reporter: Shawn Heisey > > There has been a lot of recent discussion about how large the Solr download > is, and how to reduce its size. The last release (4.10.2) weighs in at 143MB > for the tar and 149MB for the zip. > Most users do not need the full download. They may never need contrib > features, or they may only need one or two, with DIH being the most likely > choice. They could likely get by with a download that's less than 40 MB. > Our primary competition has a 29MB zip download for the release that's > current right now, and not too long ago, that was about 20MB. I didn't look > very deep, but any additional features that might be available for download > were not immediately apparent on their website. I'm sure they exist, but I > would guess that most users never need those features, so most users never > even see them. > Solr, by contrast, has everything included ... a "kitchen sink" approach. > Once you get past the long download time and fire up the example, you're > presented with configs that include features you're likely to never use. > Although this offers maximum flexibility, I think it also serves to cause > confusion in a new user. > A much better option would be to create a core download that includes only a > minimum set of features, probably just the war, the example servlet > container, and an example config that only uses the functionality present in > the war. We can create additional downloads that offer additional > functionality and configs ... DIH would be a very small addon that would > likely be downloaded frequently. > SOLR-5103 describes a plugin infrastructure which would make it very easy to > offer a small core download and then let the user download additional > functionality using scripts or the UI. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org