[pylucene-dev] Re: question about Windows binaries

[Dirk Rothe]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:30:03 +0100, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Do you have a recipe for doing this that others might follow?
>

yes, that would be pretty cool. A windows distribution containing JCC  
+ PyLucene + a stripped down JDK. That would shrink my distribution  
considerably.

--dirk