As you suggested, I think the javadoc should be removed and provided as a separate download.
Developers and end users can also be pointed to the online documentation for references and also where the downloadable javadoc can be found. That could help On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>wrote: > Our download is currently a 150MB zip file, and 233MB on disk! > > $ du -s * > 96 CHANGES.txt > 80 LICENSE.txt > 12 NOTICE.txt > 8 README.txt > 36 build.xml > 1857 client > 20 common-build.xml > 40554 contrib > 48036 dist > 55620 docs > 76214 example > 3200 lib > 7554 src > > Hoss listed a bunch of the issues (jars in dist that didn't need to be > there) > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1433 > > --------- solr cell ------- > The example contains the "solr cell" libs in both the DIH example and > the normal example. > At a minimum, the DIH example shouldn't include them. > I think it's still up in the air if the normal example should include them. > > ------- javadoc -------- > 55MB of Javadoc! That's a bit heavy... esp when I imagine almost no > one uses it. > Should we create a compressed doc jar for this instead? > Point to an online version instead? > Note that dist also contains broken-out javadoc jars. > $ du -s dist/*docs* > 60 dist/apache-solr-cell-docs-1.4-dev.jar > 68 dist/apache-solr-clustering-docs-1.4-dev.jar > 2212 dist/apache-solr-core-docs-1.4-dev.jar > 300 dist/apache-solr-dataimporthandler-docs-1.4-dev.jar > 680 dist/apache-solr-solrj-docs-1.4-dev.jar > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com > -- "Good Enough" is not good enough. To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Quality First. Measure Twice. Cut Once.