This is what I ended up writing in there: "Approximately 10MB is required for the Maven installation itself. In addition to that, additional disk space will be used for your local Maven repository. The size of your local repository will vary depending on usage but expect at least 500MB."
If you think it should be worded differently, please add that to the ticket! /Anders On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Fred Cooke <[email protected]> wrote: > A minimum is just that, a minimum! My repo is 600 meg, but I have a stack > of *dependencies* in there... A minimum should not include *user* > dependency guesswork, it should only include what a default hello-world > project with NO deps outside the default near-empty pom produces when run > through most or all of the phases and goals. Someone start with nothing and > build such a project in N ways until there are none left, then du -hs ~/.m2 > and see what you get. Calling it the "500" because that's what an average > dev might have (with or without snapshots?) is silly, however warning in > appropriate words that in real-world use it will probably reach half a gig, > and often reach as much as 2 gig, is useful. Maven by nature and by design > is incomplete, calling the minimum 5 is an equal sin. Only once maven has > downloaded itself is it reasonable to state a minimum. Additionally, all of > the above is misleading, it's actually more like this: min usable/used > size = maven + (numUsers * pluginsAndTheirDeps)... which for a single user > simplifies out to maven + pluginsAndTheirDeps ~= 100? Too much said, but > the inaccuracy in this thread was too much, also. > > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Handled in ticket MNG-5610. > > > > /Anders > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:47 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 28 March 2014 12:09, Anders Hammar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> The requirements also says: > > > >> > > > >> "Disk No minimum requirement. Approximately 100MB will be used for > > > >> your local repository, however this will vary depending on usage > ..." > > > >> > > > >> AFAICT there _is_ a minimum requirement which is needed to store a > > > >> basic set of plugins. > > > >> And of course there is the Maven application itself, though that is > > > >> tiny (under 6Mb for 3.0.5) > > > >> > > > >> 100MB is quite a small repository; they can easily grow to 1GB or > > more. > > > >> > > > > > > > > So you think we should change to for example: > > > > "Approximately 10MB is required for the Maven installation itself. In > > > > addition to that, additional disk space will be used for your local > > Maven > > > > repository. The size of your local repository will vary depending on > > > usage > > > > but calculate for at least 500MB." > > > > > > > > Maven 3.2.1 is around 8MB, but Maven 3.0 is around 3.5MB and 2.x is > > even > > > > smaller. Stating approx 10MB will give us some space. > > > > > > > > My local repo is 1.5GB so I'm guessing an average dev would need at > > least > > > > 500MB. > > > > > > > > ok? > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > /Anders > > > > > > > > > > > >> > > > >> > /Anders > > > >> > > > > >> > [1] http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi#Requirements > > > >> > > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > >
