[kepler-dev] Kepler Installer size

[Ilkay Altintas]

Hi Dan,

The test data can be made available separately from the website. So we 
don't have to include it in the installer... Would this break any of 
the workflows?

-ilkay


On Jan 24, 2005, at 2:52 PM, Dan Higgins wrote:

> Hi All,
>    At the recent Kepler developer meeting in Juneau, the question of 
> how much space components in the Kepler installer require came up. 
> This email is a summary of the alpha4 installer size requirements.
>
> kepler-1.0.0alpha4-jre.exe --- 144,057 KB ; This is a compressed 
> version that includes the jre.
>
> When uncompressed, the kepler install  requires 296 MB !
> kepler/ptII4.0.1 --- 54.0 MB
>   kepler/ptII4.0.1/ptolemy-doc.jar --- 53.5 MB
> kepler/build/kepler.jar --- 13.1 MB
> kepler/build/kepler-configs.jar --- 621 KB
> kepler/docs --- 33.6MB
> kepler/jre --- 39.7 MB   kepler/lib --- 145 MB
>   kepler/lib/jar --- 30.5 MB
>   kepler/lib/testdata --- 106 MB
>   kepler/lib/testdata/garp --- 97.0 MB
>
> We thus see that almost 100 MB of the installed version are due to the 
> garp test data. However, the GARP test data can be compressed quite 
> effectively. (It requires only about 7 MB in the compressed 
> installer.) [7/144  ~ 5% of the compressed package; 97/296  ~ 33% of 
> uncompressed package.]
>
> We can reduce the jar files used in actors by dynamic loading, but 
> there is only 30.5 MB there. ptII documentation is ~53 MB in a jar and 
> kepler docs is 33.6 MB. We can reduce size by separate loading of this 
> documentation.
>
> Dan
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