Jupytext 1.10.0 is way to big (44.7MB)

[mwouts]

There seem to be way to many files in the .tar.gz:

[mwouts]

The tar.gz file is so big because of packages/labextension/node_modules (222MB when decompressed).
@martinRenou do you know how to filter out these files? I guess we don't really need them in the package, is that correct?

[martinRenou]

Oh wow, that's huge indeed! https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6s0wov/heaviest_objects_in_the_universe

Yes, this should definitely be removed from the source distribution. I guess a global-exclude */node_modules here would do the trick?

[mwouts]

LOL... love the link!

Well I tried a global-exclude yesterday but that did not seem to work. Actually the packaging process seems to generate another MANIFEST file (with no extension) and I was thinking that maybe that one is what controls what is included. Maybe I should ask for help on the jupyter_packaging tracker?

[martinRenou]

Actually the packaging process seems to generate another MANIFEST file (with no extension) and I was thinking that maybe that one is what controls what is included

Yes, I saw that. It seems to me that it's generated from your MANIFEST.in (by setuptools?)

[mwouts]

Hi @martinRenou , yes you were right, these files are controlled by my MANIFEST.in file. With the attached PR I do get a much more reasonable size (665K)!

[mwouts]

Just to confirm, it also worked well on the pypublish step 👍