I just noticed something insane about xapian-examples. Here's the
contents of the tarball for 0.8.5, sorted in decreasing size order:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 679970 Dec 23 20:01 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 olly olly 247638 Dec 23 20:01 aclocal.m4
-rw-r--r-- 1 olly olly 183313 Sep 14 13:33 ltmain.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 41362 Jul 27 2003 config.guess
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 34429 Dec 23 17:45 ChangeLog
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 29973 Jul 27 2003 config.sub
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 23369 Nov 3 20:16 getopt.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1 olly olly 22790 Dec 23 20:01 Makefile.in
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 15131 Dec 16 1999 COPYING
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 12123 Jul 27 2003 depcomp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 10270 Jul 27 2003 missing
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 6822 Dec 7 16:55 delve.cc
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 6740 Dec 23 17:39 INSTALL
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 5569 Jul 27 2003 install-sh
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 3272 Dec 7 16:55 simpleexpand.cc
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 3196 Dec 7 16:55 quest.cc
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 2964 Nov 3 20:10 gnu_getopt.h
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 2921 Dec 7 16:55 simpleindex.cc
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 2499 Dec 7 16:55 copydatabase.cc
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 2425 Dec 7 16:55 simplesearch.cc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 olly olly 1801 Jul 27 2003 mkinstalldirs
-rw-r--r-- 1 olly olly 1447 Dec 23 20:03 config.h.in
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 1432 Dec 23 17:45 NEWS
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 1083 Dec 23 17:45 configure.ac
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 773 Nov 9 03:05 Makefile.am
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 434 Dec 23 17:45 README
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 215 Jun 27 2002 TODO
-r--r--r-- 1 olly olly 66 Jun 27 2002 AUTHORS
All the really large files are only there because this is a separate
package.
The autoconf magic needed by xapian-examples is all in xapian-core
already, as are getopt.cc and gnu_getopt.h.
In fact of the 11 largest files, only ChangeLog isn't redundant.
I'd estimate merging xapian-examples into xapian-core would add 16K
(or 0.8%) to the size of xapian-core (that's the size of a tar.gz
containing the files I'd keep - if anything they'll compress better in a
larger tarball). As a separate tarball xapian-examples is 302K!
Merging them would also give delve and quest a higher profile - they're
useful tools for poking Xapian databases to check what they contain.
And copydatabase has its uses too.
We're already merging xapian-core and xapian-examples in the RPMs
anyway. Meanwhile the debian packages are currently shunning
xapian-examples.
Cheers,
Olly
Richard Boulton
2005-Jan-10 08:52 UTC
[Xapian-discuss] Merge xapian-examples into xapian-core?
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 01:07 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:> I'd estimate merging xapian-examples into xapian-core would add 16K > (or 0.8%) to the size of xapian-core (that's the size of a tar.gz > containing the files I'd keep - if anything they'll compress better in a > larger tarball). As a separate tarball xapian-examples is 302K! > > Merging them would also give delve and quest a higher profile - they're > useful tools for poking Xapian databases to check what they contain. > And copydatabase has its uses too. > > We're already merging xapian-core and xapian-examples in the RPMs > anyway. Meanwhile the debian packages are currently shunning > xapian-examples.I'd be happy to see them merged - it does seem to make sense, and will make it really easy to add them to the debian packages. -- Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>