Github user fhueske commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6123 I'm with Till here. The example JARs add very little value. I would be OK with adding them if this was lightweight, but each example will include the Table API and its dependencies (incl. Calcite and Janino) and hence be 16MB in size. So adding these examples to the distribution adds 80MB in total for very little value. Hence, I would not add them to the distribution.
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