As all know bittorrent is written in python program. whenever i download and install the bittorrent.exe, I never found any file(like dll etc) associated in program files i mean whenever i go to c:\program files\bittorrent i found only single file called bittorrent.exe, i wonder how this program is compiled to exe , whereas whenever i want to build standalone python exe i use py2exe and i found the output consists of nearly 25mb, which consists of all library file included. Can anybody will tell me the detail structure how the bittorent program is build into exe.
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Actually bittorrent is a protocol. The original program which implemented bittorrent may have been written in Python but that's not the case now.
A lot of them now are coded in compiled languages, Transmission being the one I'm most familiar with (comes with Ubuntu) - it uses gcc.
paxdiablo
2010-10-15 08:57:29
@paxdiablo: might not want to let on you are familiar with uTorrent! ;)
Mitch Wheat
2010-10-15 09:00:46
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Take a look at http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobs. They are looking for C/C++ developers... not python.
xor_eq
2010-10-15 08:59:48
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Look in the documentation for the BitTorrent client that you use. There are several Python clients and each one does things differently.
Tim McNamara
2010-10-15 09:24:02
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You mean the, umm, "official" BitTorrent client from bittorrent.com, right? I couldn't find the latest source code but older versions were built using py2exe (see winsetup.py of the client v4.26). I can't explain why your py2exe output is so huge, but the setup.py file included in the sources seems to exclude a lot of modules. Maybe you used the setup.py file that was intended for Linux/Unix.
If you didn't mean that client GUI, you should know that BitTorrent is actually just the protocol, and there exist multiple libraries and GUIs that implement it.
AndiDog
2010-10-15 09:26:17