compiler.jar size is 40% larger, includes copy of Apache Ant

According to the message at [1], future versions of Closure Compiler binaries will no longer distributed from https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/ URLs. When comparing the last published version in that endpoint at [2], with the one from NPM there is a substantial 8.3MB->12MB (40%) increase in the compiler.jar size.

Compare with the following commands:

wget https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-20200719.tar.gz
tar xvfz compiler-20200719.tar.gz
ls -lah closure-compiler-v20200719.jar # 8.3MB

whereas the NPM version

npm install --no-bin-links --only=prod google-closure-compiler
ls -lah node_modules/google-closure-compiler-java/compiler.jar # 12MB

Is this increase expected?

[1] https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/Binary-Downloads [2] https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-20200719.zip

[evmar]

Thanks for looking, that does seem wrong. We’ll leave this bug open, but we are pretty stretched for resources, so it’s at the end of a long list of other bugs (that we’d also like to fix someday…).

[L3P3]

Congratulations, now we have renamed (shaded) the Ant files in the output so you won’t see why the jar file size is growing into infinity due to dependency hell. Rules out some further creative closure compiler use-cases. Or did I miss something? 😉