+1 for solr lite A lot of users are fine without those example stuff (dih , cell)
one option is to have two different distributions. solr.zip and a solr-min.zip On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Matthew Runo<[email protected]> wrote: > I'd be willing to guess that the vast majority of users start off with the > example app and customize from there to meet their needs. > > Thanks for your time! > > Matthew Runo > Software Engineer, Zappos.com > [email protected] - 702-943-7833 > > On Jun 10, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Eric Pugh wrote: > >> Has anyone really complained about the size of Solr? One of the things I >> like about Solr is how simple it is to get things up and running, and how >> accesible the example directory makes everything. When I first played with >> DIH and Cell, everything was there. I didn't have to chase down .jar's from >> multiple places. Maybe if it was as simple as "ant build-example-cell" and >> "ant build-example-dih" then there might not be a barrier to entry for new >> users. >> >> I'd be curious to hear what percentage of folks deploy solr based on the >> example app, and how many just start out with the most stripped down >> solr.war and build everything up from there? >> >> Eric >> >> >> >> >> On Jun 10, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Should be easy enough to conjure up the Ant magic. >>> >>> On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for bringing this up Patrick... clearly it would be nice to >>>> avoid (or mandate) 100MB downloads! >>>> >>>> -Yonik >>>> http://www.lucidimagination.com >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 5:50 PM, patrick o'leary <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Just using the apache-solr example directory, it seems to have gotten a >>>>> bit >>>>> big >>>>> e.g. >>>>> >>>>> $ du -sh * >>>>> 13M apache-solr-1.3.0 >>>>> 92M apache-solr-1.4.0 >>>>> >>>>> The biggest space user being example-DIH >>>>> >>>>> apache-solr-1.4.0/example >>>>> $ du -sh * >>>>> 4.0K README.txt >>>>> 5.5M clustering >>>>> 80K etc >>>>> *32M example-DIH* >>>>> 42K exampleAnalysis >>>>> 168K exampledocs >>>>> 13M lib >>>>> 52K logs >>>>> 118K multicore >>>>> *31M solr* >>>>> 20K start.jar >>>>> 12M webapps >>>>> 12K work >>>>> >>>>> solr/lib is now 30mb >>>>> apache-solr-1.4.0/example/solr/lib >>>>> $ ls -lhS >>>>> total 30M >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 14M Jun 10 17:08 ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 4.3M Jun 10 17:08 icu4j-3.8.jar >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 3.2M Jun 10 17:08 pdfbox-0.7.3.jar >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 2.6M Jun 10 17:08 xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 1.5M Jun 10 17:08 poi-3.5-beta5.jar >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 1.2M Jun 10 17:08 xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar >>>>> -rwx------ 1 pjaol None 1.1M Jun 10 17:08 bcprov-jdk14-132.jar >>>>> >>>>> as opposed to 0 for 1.3.0 >>>>> >>>>> This pushes solr to over a 100mb download for features that I'm sure >>>>> can be >>>>> packaged up separately as they look seldom used. >>>>> It would make sense if there's going to be a batteries included version >>>>> to >>>>> also have a solr-lite version. >>>>> >>>>> P >>>>> >>> >>> -------------------------- >>> Grant Ingersoll >>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/ >>> >>> Search the Lucene ecosystem (Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Mahout/Tika/Droids) using >>> Solr/Lucene: >>> http://www.lucidimagination.com/search >>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> Eric Pugh | Principal | OpenSource Connections, LLC | 434.466.1467 | >> http://www.opensourceconnections.com >> Free/Busy: http://tinyurl.com/eric-cal >> >> >> >> > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
