[Feature Request]: consider reducing the package size for reducing bandwith and local filestorage usage

[t-bltg]

Describe the bug

$ cd .julia/packages
$ du -sh * | sort -h
[...]
11M	MathTeXEngine
23M	ColorSchemes
26M	GR
29M	CSV
94M	DelaunayTriangulation  # <== this is too much !

DelaunayTriangulation is the heaviest installed package because of the shipped docs and test image files.
Even CairoMakie doesn't ship its' .png files for ReferenceTests.

Please consider storing the assets (.png files) somewhere else, for example by creating a subdir in DelaunayTriangulation.jl.

[DanielVandH]

Thanks for the issue! If there's an example somewhere of how to go about doing that, I'm happy to.

[t-bltg]

Thanks for considering this.

Of course there are multiple ways to do that, but there is an example of repository restructuring in #238.

In https://github.com/t-bltg/DelaunayTriangulation.jl/tree/reduce, you can see that the DelaunayTriangulation is moved to its own subdir.

You can still register a new version using @JuliaRegistrator register subdir=DelaunayTriangulation, but now all the files outside of this subdirectory won't be shipped with julia's Pkg manager.

I've moved some heavy files into DelaunayTriangulation.jl/assets, but haven't adjusted the docs paths though.

[JuliaRegistrator]

Error while trying to register: "File (Julia)Project.toml not found"

[JuliaRegistrator]

Error while trying to register: "File (Julia)Project.toml not found"

[DanielVandH]

Thanks for that, I appreciate it. I'll need a little while to get to this but I'll try and make that change.

(At the time of making all those large files, I didn't know that those files are also downloaded when just doing add, but never got around to fixing it after learning that - so thanks.)

[t-bltg]

Of course, another alternative would be to reduce the filesize of the shipped files to something more reasonable using CairoMakie : maybe by using px_per_unit.

[t-bltg]

Xref JuliaLang/Pkg.jl#3798.