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Yonik Seeley commented on SOLR-6806:
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bq. One thing we could do for immediate relief is to only include the war in
the dist directory, not the webapps directory.
Seems like it should be vice-versa given that a war is no longer distributed?
> Reduce the size of the main Solr binary download
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>
> Key: SOLR-6806
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6806
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Build
> Affects Versions: 5.0
> Reporter: Shawn Heisey
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> There has been a lot of recent discussion about how large the Solr download
> is, and how to reduce its size. The last release (4.10.2) weighs in at 143MB
> for the tar and 149MB for the zip.
> Most users do not need the full download. They may never need contrib
> features, or they may only need one or two, with DIH being the most likely
> choice. They could likely get by with a download that's less than 40 MB.
> Our primary competition has a 29MB zip download for the release that's
> current right now, and not too long ago, that was about 20MB. I didn't look
> very deep, but any additional features that might be available for download
> were not immediately apparent on their website. I'm sure they exist, but I
> would guess that most users never need those features, so most users never
> even see them.
> Solr, by contrast, has everything included ... a "kitchen sink" approach.
> Once you get past the long download time and fire up the example, you're
> presented with configs that include features you're likely to never use.
> Although this offers maximum flexibility, I think it also serves to cause
> confusion in a new user.
> A much better option would be to create a core download that includes only a
> minimum set of features, probably just the war, the example servlet
> container, and an example config that only uses the functionality present in
> the war. We can create additional downloads that offer additional
> functionality and configs ... DIH would be a very small addon that would
> likely be downloaded frequently.
> SOLR-5103 describes a plugin infrastructure which would make it very easy to
> offer a small core download and then let the user download additional
> functionality using scripts or the UI.
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