Ubuntu packages have too large install footprint

[stephanemagnenat]

Currently, the PPA built of Aseba have an install footprint of more than 300MB, this is too much!

Things can be improved by:

• using shared libraries for Aseba
• not installing example binaries and experimental programs such as:
  • aseba-qt-dbus
  • aseba-qt-gui
  • aseba-test-natives-count
  • asebabotspeak
  • asebatest

[stephanemagnenat]

Switching to dynamic libraries is too much work for the short 1.5 deadline, pushing to 1.6

[cor3ntin]

the following libraries are good candidates for shared libraries

3,3M    aseba/clients/studio/libasebaqtcommon.a
3,1M    aseba/clients/studio/plugins/libasebaqtplugins.a
2,0M    aseba/common/libasebacommon.a
1,3M    aseba/common/zeroconf/libasebazeroconf.a
2,5M    aseba/compiler/libasebacompiler.a

[davidjsherman]

But not vm and vmbuffer, cf. https://github.com/aseba-community/aseba/issues/795#issue-291022563?

[cor3ntin]

@davidjsherman meh, they are extremely small libraries, a few K, no real need for them to not be static.

[davidjsherman]

Please document the use cases where more than one or two processes will be using the shared libraries that you have identified.