Support reduced dependency graph size for datafusion-cli
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- Rust
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Description
### Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?
The `datafusion-cli` crate currently pulls in S3, GCS and generic HTTP support unconditionally. This functionality pulls in a number of other crates whose transitive closure of dependencies is quite large. When tracking dependency vulnerabilities for all of these, this can lead to quite a lot of false positives when the cloud functionality is not actually used. Additionally, this increases binary size with effectively dead code.
### Describe the solution you'd like
Add features (enabled by default for backward compatibility) that can be used to omit the cloud functionality and associated dependencies.
### Describe alternatives you've considered
- Build your own CLI from scratch to have precise control over dependencies.
- Modularise the CLI into smaller library parts to make building your own easier.
### Additional context
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start in the datafusion-cli crate's dependency configuration and trace the unconditional S3, GCS, and generic HTTP support. Add default-enabled features that allow the cloud functionality and its dependencies to be omitted, then verify that default builds remain compatible and that a cloud-free build has a reduced dependency graph.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- build-system, cli, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100