On 2012-02-05 07:03, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
Hi Richard
Does anyone know which version of fastutil is checked in to splitter's svn repository? All of the versions at <http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/it.unimi.dsi/fastutil> are MUCH bigger than that one.
I believe that it is 5.1.5.
OK, thanks. I don't see that version in the public Maven Central Repository. Would it be OK to upgrade to the latest? Or downgrade to 5.0.9 (see <http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/fastutil/fastutil>)?
However it is processed with autojar (http://autojar.sourceforge.net/) to contain only the classes that we require, as suggested on the home page of fastutil (http://fastutil.dsi.unimi.it/)
Ah, I see. I don't see autojar in any of the public Maven repositories; we may have to put it up on ivy.mkgmap.org.uk.
From the point of view of creating the distribution that I serve at http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/splitter/ I think it is worth continuing to included a trimmed fastutil jar, since otherwise the download will bloat to several times its existing size for no benefit.
Agreed.
But this could be done by putting the trimmed jar in the mkgmap ivy repo or by trimming the fastutils jar as part of the build process, I don't mind which.
For someone building on their own machine it probably matters less.
I think I'd prefer to trim fastutil as part of the build process for a few reasons: * all of the logic needed to go from start to finish is contained in build.xml (we don't have to separately document how to generate the trimmed fastutil jar) * if splitter starts using more of fastutil we don't have to generate a new fastutil jar * if splitter starts using less of fastutil the output will be smaller without us uploading a smaller fastutil jar to the ivy repository (which would break compatibility with old svn revisions) * downloading from the Maven Central Repository reduces load on ivy.mkgmap.org.uk There are the following drawbacks: * it slows down the build * it increases the load on the Maven Central Repository * it increases the amount users have to download in order to build splitter from svn -Richard