Is it possible to reduce the installation footprint?

[project-owner]

It needs more than 100MB of disk space when installed on a Raspberry Pi. Is it possible to reduce that size?

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What could be safely deleted after installation or from the requirements.txt?

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ du -h minim
64K     minim/.git/hooks
8.0K    minim/.git/info
8.0K    minim/.git/logs/refs/heads
8.0K    minim/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin
12K     minim/.git/logs/refs/remotes
24K     minim/.git/logs/refs
32K     minim/.git/logs
8.0K    minim/.git/refs/heads
8.0K    minim/.git/refs/remotes/origin
12K     minim/.git/refs/remotes
4.0K    minim/.git/refs/tags
28K     minim/.git/refs
4.0K    minim/.git/branches
4.0K    minim/.git/objects/info
76M     minim/.git/objects/pack
76M     minim/.git/objects
76M     minim/.git
2.3M    minim/assets
268K    minim/docs/notebooks/user_guide
400K    minim/docs/notebooks
2.5M    minim/docs/_modules/minim
2.5M    minim/docs/_modules
72K     minim/docs/source/notebooks/user_guide
148K    minim/docs/source/notebooks
16K     minim/docs/source/_templates/autosummary
20K     minim/docs/source/_templates
100K    minim/docs/source/api
296K    minim/docs/source
140K    minim/docs/_static/styles
44K     minim/docs/_static/scripts
416K    minim/docs/_static
72K     minim/docs/_sources/notebooks/user_guide
148K    minim/docs/_sources/notebooks
112K    minim/docs/_sources/api
276K    minim/docs/_sources
3.2M    minim/docs/api
152K    minim/docs/.doctrees/notebooks/user_guide
304K    minim/docs/.doctrees/notebooks
6.0M    minim/docs/.doctrees/api
12M     minim/docs/.doctrees
19M     minim/docs
7.8M    minim/tests/data/previews
916K    minim/tests/data/samples
8.7M    minim/tests/data
8.8M    minim/tests
8.0K    minim/.github/workflows
12K     minim/.github
912K    minim/src/minim
916K    minim/src
106M    minim

Is it OK to use requirements_minimal.txt instead of requirements.txt?

Thank you!

[bbye98]

Looks like it'll be a good time for some git repack magic. I believe the large file size might be due to the sample FLACs in the docs/tests that are being updated with each push. I'll look into this.

You can safely delete everything but the src folder, but you may not be able to git pull, etc., in the future. But you may want to consider doing a shallow clone using git clone -depth 1 ... to save disk space instead.

[project-owner]

OK, usually 'pip install' installs everything in a regular Python location for libraries. After that the whole folder could be deleted. Tests and docs should not go there.

[bbye98]

That's correct. Unfortunately, the PEP 541 request for Minim has not been approved yet. I may put out wheels under Releases so you can grab those instead (you would lose immediate updates through git pull).

[project-owner]

Would the wheels include only sources without tests and docs? Thanks!

[bbye98]

Yes, Python wheels will only include the Python source code. I will build and release wheels once I'm done with the Discogs submodule, but there's no ETA unfortunately as I am busy with other aspects of my life currently.

Hope to provide an update soon, though!

[bbye98]

Believe it or not--I am still working on this. Finished grad school and started a new job, so haven't had a lot of free time to tinker.

Minim is now (has been) available through pip, which should already cut down on unnecessary bloat quite a bit.

A major rewrite is underway to remove the Mutagen dependency. It will be available in Minim 2.0.