Improvements of the build files

[Freeze-FF]

User story

1. As a user
2. I want / need an windows .exe file and an .msi installer
3. So that I can direclty run that application using Windows

Acceptance criteria

• For every new release, there should be an .exe file and an .msi installer.
• The .exe file should run without (security) warnings or any other issues
• Is it possible to exclude certain dependencies so that the build file becomes smaller?
• The distributables should not become so large!
• Code and libraries are actually rather small, if necessary, throw something out if not needed.

Definition of done (DoD)

• Create feature branch
• Implement the functionality
• Opened pull request and assigned reviewer
• If necessary: required changes are implemented
• Delete feature branch
• If necessary: Component Test has been written
• Code review has been completed and code has been merged

DoD general criteria

• Feature has been fully implemented
• Feature has been merged into the mainline
• All acceptance criteria were met
• Product owner approved features
• All tests are passing
• Developers agreed to release

[zino212]

Both .exe and .msi are currently individually 0.98 GB on my machine.

[simonsasse]

so if I delete all iOS, windows, linux files in the GUI/contents/app folder within the package executable. I can reduce size from 1.18GB to 348GB

[simonsasse]

I suggest we write a script that goes through the subfolder of the executable where all these .jars are and deletes everything containing macOS, android, iOS, linux (If on windows) etc. und wenn es mal was kaputt mach muessen wir schauen. Aber so hab ich mein build Auf 340mb bekommen.
Man koennte das sogar automatisieren in GH actions

[simonsasse]

or we add it to the Gradle task createDistributable.