Remove bundles to avoid bloat
Created by: jarrah42
The ICE app weighs in at almost 900MB (OS X). We should remove some bundles that are unlikely to be used to reduce the size. Jay mentioned EMF, but other suggestions appreciated.
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Created by: jayjaybillings
EMF is the biggest by far.
My philosophy on this has been to cram everything that scientific software developers would want into our build, but lately, as you say, ICE's size has become a serious issue. I think what would make the most sense - at least to me - is to put a short cut under the developer menu that will automatically try to install the following packages
- the EMF tools (~500MB)
- the web tools (~200MB)
- select parts of PTP (~50MB & up to you)
Let me know what you think about this. @amccaskey too. We can create a separate ticket for updating the dev menu if we go this route.
Created by: jarrah42
It's a good idea to provide an easy way to add features. I'm concerned that the developer menu will become a bit of a pain to maintain, since we'll have to continually revise and update the content. Something like the marketplace would be a better long term solution. I think it would be worth looking at providing a simplified and/or customized version that references our content.
Created by: jayjaybillings
Yes, you are absolutely right. A separate/the marketplace makes perfect sense for existing Eclipse content.
What I haven't figured out yet is whether or not we can use the marketplace to pull in project source code like we do in the developer menu. I would love to have a little marketplace client in place of the lists we are making in the dev menu.
