Why is standalone app package so big? Does it reduce fat in future?

[janckerchen]

I just package simple-sound.rb and get standalone app for mac with hug size >200M!

JDK is about 100M, I think JRE is enough for end user.

Is there space for optimize?

[PragTob]

Hi there,

yes there is lots of space for optimization there. We are in a pre alpha stadium and the current packaging implementation is by no means done (actually packaging isn't really scheduled to ship untilt he RC1). Most of the packaging code (or well.. almost all of it) is in the furoshiki code.

Thanks for the report,
Cheers Tobi

[davorb]

200M sounds way to big. If I'm not mistaken, there we some talk about this on the mailing list and we got it down to ~35MB fairly easily. I have no idea why it's so big again.

[PragTob]

Maybe it was just talk and we didn't implement it yet? :-)

I also feel like there was some talk about that on either the ML or an issue here, would be great if somebody could digg that up (I tried yesterday but failed)

[davorb]

I'm 99.9% sure that it was in. I think what might have happened after that is that the package got bloated again. In any case we need to look into it.

[PragTob]

Okay I'll make an issue on furoshiki and cross reference.

[janckerchen]

I make sure it's big, mac standalone has 216M, jar file has 106M

no picture, no truth:)

Dig into jar file, found MB killer is nokogiri-1.6.0, about 75M

[PragTob]

No pictures needed, we believe you but thanks anyway! =) 👍

Will have to check what goes into that JAR.. SWT library shouldn't be that big etc. Or well... for the JAR it probably packages all SWT libraries which already gets you quite some amount. Plus JRuby. Hmmm.

[janckerchen]

Dig into mac standalone app, JDK is 104M

swt libary only has 17M if it means swt-0.18

[wasnotrice]

yes, 200MB is too big ;)

35MB is about the lower limit for the JAR. If it's approaching 100, there's extra stuff in there. At one time shoes/static was bloating JARs. That might still be the case. JAR should be pretty much:

• swt ~ 17MB
• jruby ~ 14MB
• other gems ~ 3MB

I'd love to slim the packages down as much as possible, so if we can get by with JRE, that would be great :)

[PragTob]

Let's transfer the majority of this discussion to the packaging gem and keep it open here for tracking purposes: shoes/furoshiki#9

I'll repost what Eric just posted there.

In the other thread it was mentioned that nokogiri takes up 60MB which baffles me. But yeah, over there...

[MichaelDimmitt]

I know this shouldn't be here but I wanted to mention it. @PragTob
Wrote a nifty script. My install uninstall package is fairly simple. So I removed all of the gems that I could from the jar file. Shrunk the Jar file down from 63mb to 35mb with program retaining functionality. Now I'll take a look at shoes/furoshiki because the script I wrote is a bandaid. For my specific small project. https://github.com/MichaelDimmitt/aerial_desktop_with_shoes/blob/fb4fa115d0825db72e4df03b2a6d3d5bb9df948c/script.sh

[jasonrclark]

There's definitely more room to trim, but I'm comfortable with the 65MB that we've gotten it down to for now (i.e. probably through the 4.0 release). Might be worth at least cutting out the biggest files (i.e. the duplicate jruby jars we slurp in because of our gem dependencies), but I'm willing to let that ride to focus on other aspects and handle it over in shoes/furoshiki#9 at some point.