On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Ian Holsman<[email protected]> wrote: > Is bandwidth or disk space really an issue for people today ? > > you should be focusing on decreasing the size and speed of indexing stuff > not the code-base. It's not like you guys have unlimited time to spend on > this project.
This does not have to be a code change . It just just has to be a new build target (even that is code, but...) downloading 100MB is not very pleasant if you keep downloading nightlies every now and then. > > ps. if you don't have the examples in there, then people won't know that > feature exists. > > and yes. i regularly copy the example schema to create a new index. I know > it's bad practice, and not the most efficient schema, but it usually has the > cool features enabled in it ;-) > > Noble Paul ??????? ?????? wrote: >> >> +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
