Jukka Zitting was suggesting we should rethink the Nutch release packaging because of it's size. I don't see this as a blocker for 1.0 but we could perhaps start the discussion about this anyway so throw in your opinions...
the related snippet from email discussion: Sami Siren wrote: > Jukka Zitting wrote: >> * Why does the release package contain pre-built documentation and >> binaries? Downloading the 90MB package takes much longer than checking >> out and building the 40MB tag from svn. >> IMHO it would be a service to users to make the release contain just >> the svn export with instruction >> on how to build the rest. > > I see your point about the fat artifact but I am not totally convinced > that users (as in end users) would prefer the idea of fetching the > development tools and compiling the software before they use it, at > least I am not doing that with the software I use. > > I will discuss this with rest of the devs and see what we can do here. > One solution could be to split the release in two parts binary only and > source (they would both be about the same size since out build process > currently copies jars around I think that's mostly the reason for the > gigantic size) as you propose below. -- Sami Siren
