[NIFI-5402] Reduce artifact size by only building .zip archive

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.17.0
• Component/s: Tools and Build
• Labels: archive build format maven tar zip
• Assignee: Nathan Gough
• Reporter: Andy LoPresto
• Created: 10/Jul/18 02:21
• Updated: 14/Sep/22 20:39
• Resolved: 14/Sep/22 20:39

Description

The maven build bundles two identical builds (one in .tar.gz format and one in .zip format). Based on community discussion, there is no longer a need for separate .tar.gz, and removing this would increase the speed of the build and greatly decrease the hosting requirements for the binaries.

That said, building a .tar.gz archive should be available through an (inactive) profile if a user wants to enable it.

Issue Links

• relates to: NIFI-10323 Switch Dockerfiles to use Zip Archives
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5694
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6266