Re: [DISCUSS] Towards a leaner flink-dist

Posted by Ufuk Celebi on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Towards-a-leaner-flink-dist-tp25615p25697.html

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:01 AM Timo Walther <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I think what is more important than a big dist bundle is a helpful
> "Downloads" page where users can easily find available filesystems,
> connectors, metric repoters. Not everyone checks Maven central for
> available JAR files. I just saw that we added a "Optional components"
> section recently [1], we just need to make it more prominent. This is
> also done for the SQL connectors and formats [2].

+1 I fully agree with the importance of the Downloads page. We
definitely need to make any optional dependencies that users need to
download easy to find.