Build archive contains toolkit documentation.

[ddebrunner]

There's extra stuff being put in the build archive that is not needed at compile time and bloats the build archive.

When topology creates a build archive it excludes these items from a toolkit (relative to the root):

• toolkit.xml
• doc
• output
• samples
• opt/client

https://github.com/IBMStreams/streamsx.topology/blob/c522e24e4ad954ad7acb88b29d023b86a07dc04a/java/src/com/ibm/streamsx/topology/internal/context/remote/ZippedToolkitRemoteContext.java#L227

[guychris]

I'd like to propose as a solution to this, having a .splignore file, similar to something like .gitignore, which we read to determine what files/folders should be excluded from the build archive. We could by default, if the file is not found, exclude your suggestions above. As a future enhancement, when we add functionality for a "new spl application" wizard or similar, we could pre-populate a .splignore file with what the "default" set of ignored files/folders. I feel this would be a safer approach than ignoring multiple directories that a user could potentially have need of for their build.