[pylucene-dev] Re: question about Windows binaries

[Andi Vajda]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Charles wrote:

>> From the section of
> "Redistribution of the J2SE Runtime Environment" at
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jre/README
>
> I do not see any significant restriction except that the JRE should
> not be modified in any way.

That's part of the problem. The JRE is _huge_. I was able to trim down 
OpenJDK's rt.jar file from around 50Mb to about 7Mb. Lucene is rather frugal 
with its JRE code needs.

Andi..