The jar without excluding some dependencies in shadowJar is a little bit less

[ellet0]

What happened?

1. Go to build.gradle in the shadowJar block
2. Run ./gradlew shadowJar and rename the output jar to anything different so it won't replaced with the new one
3. Replace minimize block that has exlcude (inside it) with only minimize()
4. Run ./gradlew shadowJar once again

You will notice the old jar size is (26.2 MB) while the new one is (21 MB)

and it is supposed to be the exact opposite, excluding some dependencies should save some space, not making the jar file size a little bit bigger, I might be wrong (I'm not sure if this issue from my side) or it might be a bug in the shadow jar or it could be that excluding some dependencies manually would disable the minimize() process provided by shadow jar and will only exclude what you want to exclude

minimize {
        exclude(dependency('org.apache.logging.log4j:.*:.*'))
        exclude(dependency('com.formdev:.*:.*'))
        exclude(dependency('com.github.jnr:.*:.*'))
        exclude(dependency('com.github.hypfvieh:.*:.*'))
        exclude(dependency('org.apache.commons:commons-compress:.*'))
    }

What the docs say:

In either case, it is worth the try, usually the jar file size should be as less as possible

Operating System

macOS

Relevant log output

This is not a bug

Additional Information

Is this actually a launcher bug?

• I am sure this is a bug with the launcher and not an issue with running Minecraft

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[ellet0]

Closing this issue, I will try to focus on more important things next time.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Doomsdayrs]

I am a bit confused, why close this?

[ellet0]

I am a bit confused, why close this?

It might be misleading because exclude in the minimize might exclude things from being minimized, because of a reflection for example, and not exclude extra things from the jar, I tested both versions of the jars, and both work without any errors like ClassNotFoundException etc...