[FLINK-20472] Change quickstarts to have a dependency on "flink-dist"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Quickstarts
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 03/Dec/20 14:25
• Updated: 08/Nov/21 10:44

Description

I suggest we change the quickstarts to have the following dependencies.

• flink-dist (provided)
• log4j (runtime)

That way the projects created from quickstarts have exactly the same dependencies as what the distribution provides. That solves all our mismatches between needing different dependencies for compiling/running-in-IDE and packaging for deployment.

For example, we can add the flink-connector-base and flink-connector-files back to flink-dist without having any issues with setting up dependencies in the user projects.