Hello,
the binary distribution that we release by now contains quite a lot of
optional components, including various filesystems, metric reporters and
libraries. Most users will only use a fraction of these, and as such
pretty much only increase the size of flink-dist.
With Flink growing more and more in scope I don't believe it to be
feasible to ship everything we have with every distribution, and instead
suggest more of a "pick-what-you-need" model, where flink-dist is rather
lean and additional components are downloaded separately and added by
the user.
This would primarily affect the /opt directory, but could also be
extended to cover flink-dist. For example, the yarn and mesos code could
be spliced out into separate jars that could be added to lib manually.
Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Chesnay
