Thank you Robert for your reply.
For clarification, I think we will distribute a compressed tarball
(and may be also a zip for Windows?) which contains luke JAR (the GUI)
and its dependent JARs - not a fat or shaded jar. (I forgot to write
the important details in the previous mail.)

Tomoko

2021年5月29日(土) 12:37 Robert Muir <[email protected]>:
>
> +1, it is an application. So let's package it in a way, so that it is
> easy to run this application.
> This is a bit different than packaging a library: different target
> audience for example (developers vs. operations and other folks)
>
> Definitely +1 to give luke its own "artifact" that might work a bit
> differently than the usual library artifacts. The most extreme might
> be a kind of shaded application jar, very friendly to the common case,
> but perhaps most hostile to expert cases (such as adding custom
> analyzers and codecs to classpath). Maybe it's the right tradeoff
> though, or something in between: seems like we can sort out those
> details.
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 11:10 PM Tomoko Uchida
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > As a byproduct of LUCENE-9448, we now have a neat gradle task (thank
> > you Dawid!) to assemble a standalone Luke package.
> >
> > I think it makes sense to distribute the standalone "Luke app" that
> > contains only its executable-jar and minimum dependencies to run it,
> > as it used to be, on Lucene download page (
> > https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html ).
> >
> > Pros:
> > - Easy to understand for users who need it
> > - No need to rely on strange hacks to discover dependencies (jars) for
> > running it
> >
> > Cons:
> > - Duplication of many jars (analyzers, queries, codec, etc.)
> >
> > I am sure it makes sense for long-term Luke users who used to just
> > download Luke from the original or forked sites - but let me know if
> > there is anyone who has thoughts (eg. from the aritifact maintainers'
> > perspective) on it.
> > If there is no objection/concern, I will explore what changes are
> > required to do so on LUCENE-9978.
> >
> > Final note: It doesn't affect ongoing 9.0 release. With the assemble
> > task, Luke works just fine as before.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tomoko
> >
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