Remove 'heavy' documentation objects from the binary distribution
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Key: OPENJPA-1459
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-1459
Project: OpenJPA
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: build / infrastructure
Affects Versions: 1.2.3, 1.3.0, 2.0.0
Reporter: Michael Dick
Assignee: Michael Dick
Priority: Minor
Per Kevin's comment in the OpenJPA 1.2.2 release vote [1] our binary
distribution contains a large amount of documentation files (roughly 90% of the
archive is docs). Kevin posed the question of whether other Apache projects
include docs in their distributions.
So I took a random (and small) sampling :
* HTTPServer only delivers binaries for Windows as a .msi file - I'm not sure
whether the docs are included there or not.
* Ant 1.8.0-RC1 includes documentation in the binary distribution.
* Derby 10.5.3.0 includes documentation in the binary distribution
* OpenEJB 3.1.2 does not include documentation in the binary distribution
The results don't show a clear trend (maybe a larger sample size would reveal
one), but it looks like we have leeway here to include or omit documentation in
our releases.
Also FWIW OpenEJB and Derby's binary distributions are roughly the same size as
OpenJPA 1.2.2 (around 18MB), Ant is a bit smaller (around 7 MB).
Removing all docs would put the size around 5.8 MB, removing just the javadoc
(the larger portion of documentation) puts the size around 11 MB.
[1] http://markmail.org/message/gqlt25vpdgba3glq
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