arxcain Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Would it be possible to reduce the size of Vortex to less than 10MB or so?Basically, to have only list for mods without high quality UI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 No, the programming framework we use itself is almost 100MB (one hundred).The only way it could ever get to less than that is if electron was shipped with windows (like .net is) but even then the framework would still take up space, it would just not be part of the Vortex download. Like with .net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arxcain Posted June 27, 2020 Author Share Posted June 27, 2020 Ok, thank you.I remember there where mod managers with only 250Kb. I don't understand why does it have to take that much space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Ok, thank you.I remember there where mod managers with only 250Kb. I don't understand why does it have to take that much space. That's because the mod managers of yore were just glorified installers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Tannin42 Posted June 27, 2020 Solution Share Posted June 27, 2020 That's not _entirely_ true, it has to do with the programming framework.NMM for example was based on .Net, which is installed by windows.Mod Organizer is based on Qt, Vortex on electron, both have to be shipped with the application and increase their size. Software like NMM being smaller is a bit of a deception though. On my system .net takes up over 3 GB and is used by less than half a dozen applications I use.Suddenly NMM isn't all that small anymore, it's just that its framework is hidden somewhere in your c:\windows directory and get's updated by the windows updater instead of with the next NMM update. The only way to actually build very tiny applications that still have guis are "thin" toolkits like fltk or IUP which use the windows api directly for graphics.The result is that they are obnoxious and slow to work with, are hard to get help with (for the developer), look extremely old fashioned with next to no customization features and usually can't share code with other platforms (yes, admittedly Vortex doesn't support Linux or MacOS either but that would be a manageable amount of work if we had the man-power, it wouldn't require a completely separate application). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arxcain Posted January 29, 2021 Author Share Posted January 29, 2021 (edited) Will your programming framework improve in 2021 and decrease the size of package? Edited January 29, 2021 by arxcain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Will your programming framework improve in 2021 and decrease the size of package?did you bother to read the answer given above? "improving" the framework doesn't ever equate to the size of the code that provides the functionality of the framework. So, yes the framework will improve via bug fixes and code improvements. Will it shrink to 10MB or so? Not ever.Buy a bigger hard disk if you're concerned about disk space consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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