Optional package dependencies? #2683
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Hi, I'm having the same problem and I need to reduce the package size. Have you figured out a workaround for this? |
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No, unfortunately, I dropped considering Julia for this use case. |
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What did you use instead, I'm open for suggestion? |
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Dropped the project, it was just an exploratory prototype. Would probably use C# if I had more experience in that, skill-wise I'd prefer Python, but there the situation is similar to Julia. C++ would also be an option. |
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I wish we had tools for that in PackageCompiler... |
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Re weakdeps: would be great to utilize them, see #3953 and #4277. |
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Is using optional dependencies feasible for Makie, e.g. using the new extensions feature or
targetsin Project.toml?I'm curious, because I'm currently prototyping a GUI application using Makie (and Gtk) that I need to PackageCompile.
During playing around with that process, I noticed that the result is huge (another story I guess). I noticed that I'm pulling in an
FFMPEGdependency viaMakie. Also, the (largeish) MKL is pulled lazily in viaFFTW<-KernelDensity<-Makie.I'm not including video playback features, so I thought it should be possible to not install FFMPEG. However, this is
used in theMakiemodule, which is of course centrally used everywhere.Similar with the MKL - it would be great to avoid that if I'm not using violin or density plots.
I'm not asking for this to be implemented, because it's probably a lot of work, and at this point (a 1.25 GB packagecompiler result for HDF5+GLMakie+Gtk4+GtkMakie is not encouraging) I'm not even sure if I won't be going back to Python/pyinstaller to attempt this - it might be too early for Julia for this kind of usecase. :-/
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