[kepler-dev] [Bug 4063] - Kepler-1.XDev Installer is large

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4063





------- Comment #2 from cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2009-05-13 12:47 -------
For archival reasons, I think it is very important to release a
source only tar.gz file of Kepler-2.0.  The reason is so that
it can be built in the future, when the svn repository is long-gone.

Also, making a .tar.gz file or .zip file available helps people
install who are about to get on an airplane.  

I think the installer should optionally include the source.
Yes, that makes it larger, but it is worth it.

Perhaps there should be two installers:
1) The full installer, with source and R.
2) A smaller installer that does not have sources or R.

BTW - if you are not going to ship sources, then in ptolemy/,
you could remove the README.txt files, package.html files and makefiles.

My building creates jars for the demos and other sources that
should be shipped for a runtime only env., which helps avoid shipping
everything.