sling 9 very large - reducing the size?

[Ioan Eugen Stan <ie...@netdava.com>]

Hello Sling ,

I've noticed sling 9 is quite big. The latest snapshot jar is about 107 MB.

- ~40MB of this is occupied by install/10/tike-bundle-1.14.jar . Is this
bundle always required?

- removing install/0/org.apache.sling.samples.slingshot-0.8.0.jar can
shave another 5MB


Reducing the sling-launchpad image size should make the platform easier
to work with.


Regards,

Re: sling 9 very large - reducing the size?

[Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@apache.org>]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Ioan Eugen Stan <ie...@netdava.com> wrote:
> ...All I have to do is figure
> out if I need tika or not....

I *think* Tika includes libraries for many different formats, so if
you don't need some of those formats it should be possible to create a
smaller Tika jar.

-Bertrand

Re: sling 9 very large - reducing the size?

[Ioan Eugen Stan <ie...@netdava.com>]

Hi Robert,


Thank you for the clarification and the link. All I have to do is figure
out if I need tika or not. It's still a huge bundle and maybe the tika
guys could do something to improve that, but it's another discussion.

It makes sens to be like this. I imagine some hints for using sling in
production would be welcomed and this should be there.

Have a great day,


On 22.05.2017 14:09, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> Hi Eugen,
>
> On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 21:24 +0300, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote:
>> Hello Sling ,
>>
>> I've noticed sling 9 is quite big. The latest snapshot jar is about
>> 107 MB.
>>
>> - ~40MB of this is occupied by install/10/tike-bundle-1.14.jar . Is
>> this
>> bundle always required?
> This (IIRC) is required for full-text search to function in Oak.
>
>
>> - removing install/0/org.apache.sling.samples.slingshot-0.8.0.jar can
>> shave another 5MB
> Yes, but it's explicitly in there because we want to include a demo of
> an application with the default download.
>
>
>> Reducing the sling-launchpad image size should make the platform
>> easier
>> to work with.
> For more context, we see the Sling Launchpad as a 'demo' platform which
> allows you to quickly get your feet wet and understand how Sling works.
>
> For production usage, I would expect most people would define their own
> launchpad, potentially from an existing Launchpad. There's also support
> for dynamically removing artifacts from an existing launchpad, see [1],
> but I'm not sure how many use it for that exact purpose.
>
> HTH,
>
> Robert
>
> [1]: http://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/slingstart.html#
> removing-and-changing-of-artifacts
>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Re: sling 9 very large - reducing the size?

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

Hi Eugen,

On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 21:24 +0300, Ioan Eugen Stan wrote:
> Hello Sling ,
> 
> I've noticed sling 9 is quite big. The latest snapshot jar is about
> 107 MB.
> 
> - ~40MB of this is occupied by install/10/tike-bundle-1.14.jar . Is
> this
> bundle always required?

This (IIRC) is required for full-text search to function in Oak.


> - removing install/0/org.apache.sling.samples.slingshot-0.8.0.jar can
> shave another 5MB

Yes, but it's explicitly in there because we want to include a demo of
an application with the default download.


> Reducing the sling-launchpad image size should make the platform
> easier
> to work with.

For more context, we see the Sling Launchpad as a 'demo' platform which
allows you to quickly get your feet wet and understand how Sling works.

For production usage, I would expect most people would define their own
launchpad, potentially from an existing Launchpad. There's also support
for dynamically removing artifacts from an existing launchpad, see [1],
but I'm not sure how many use it for that exact purpose.

HTH,

Robert

[1]: http://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/slingstart.html#
removing-and-changing-of-artifacts

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> Regards,
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