Why does Deluge on Windows use so many files?

[GFree]

At this moment my installation of deluge uses nearly 100 MB of space with nearly 4000 files. That's a LOT of files for a torrent client.

I can understand the need for bundling additional dependencies such as GTK2/Python, but I've looked at some of the files and get the impression a heck of a lot of the stuff there isn't actually required. Seems to be more like a full Python installation has been thrown in despite a lot of cruft not being accessed.

Are there any plans to cut out the unnecessary content? I'm not concerned with disk space as much as I am with waste. The download size would also be a lot smaller if things were optimized.

[Stacks]

I too have noticed this.

With a lot of torrent programs being able to be contained in a single executable, it raises questions.

[johnnyg]

deluge is written for linux and then ported to windows, hence why so many files (those are its dependencies).
yes it does come with a python installation but from my understanding it's not a complete installation.
there has been talk about future versions installing the necessary dependencies - this would severely reduce the size of the deluge installer, especially when upgrading, however you would find the total disk space of deluge + dependencies would be greater than what it currently is.

[noian]

You know 0.5 only uses 40 Mb.....what caused the change? Is there a way to lower it? (Vista gives me this funny discrepancy in size actually. Size: 41.8Mb. Size on Disk: 45.3Mb)

[loki]

You know 0.5 only uses 40 Mb.....what caused the change? Is there a way to lower it? (Vista gives me this funny discrepancy in size actually. Size: 41.8Mb. Size on Disk: 45.3Mb)

The size is coming down a bit in RC3 taking up just 79Mb in the program folder. Because it comes installed with python, weather it's a full install or not it's going to take up quite a bit of space, there may still be more to trim out, it remains to be seen.

The size discrepancy is because of the way many small files are stored in block sizes, it helps to understand how files are stored on the disk, each file has to take up a full block even if it's only a few bytes in size. For example, a 161 byte config file takes up 4KB (4096 bytes) because that is the smallest block size on the disk.