Jar with Dependencies - Does this library need all those "dependencies" ?

[homerlex]

The jar with dependencies is pretty sizable. Does the Selenium library actually need everything that is in there?

[Hi-Fi]

Currently that's directly from Maven. There's 12 direct dependencies in the library, so most of the things (including Robot framework and Jython) are coming as transient dependencies including the size quite much.

I think biggest thing is Appium (as it brings OpenCV which is 65 Mb compressed.

There's probably some improvements that can be made to make things smaller.

[ractoc]

it might be worth investigating of they are all really needed, and then use an to make sure the ones that are not needed are not included

[Hi-Fi]

I'll remove those in 4.x version, and make some better approach if someone is using those (mainly Appium).

[Hi-Fi]

Current pre-releases of Selenium4 using libraries have those dependecies as "provided". so those are not in fat jar.