Deluge is a BitTorrent client, created using Python and GTK+ (through PyGTK). Deluge is currently usable on Linux, BSD, and other *NIX operating systems. It is intended to bring a native, full-featured client to GTK desktop environments such as GNOME and XFCE. An official Windows port is also in development. The program uses the libtorrent C++ library. Up through the 0.4 branch, this was done through the python-libtorrent bindings for Python. In 0.5, the python-libtorrent bindings were merged into the main client as the deluge_core extension. In future releases, it is likely the official Python bindings for libtorrent will be used. Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Computer program. ... Software development stages In computer programming, development stage terminology expresses how the development of a piece of software has progressed and how much further development it may require. ... Image File history File links Nuvola_apps_kpager. ... Image File history File links Deluge-Logo. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 488 pixelsFull resolution (1137 × 693 pixel, file size: 67 KB, MIME type: image/png) Screenshot of Deluge 0. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... It has been suggested that Maintenance OS be merged into this article or section. ... Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... GTK+, or the GIMP Toolkit, is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System for creating graphical user interfaces. ... Screenshot of WingIDE which is written using PyGTK. More screenshots PyGTK is a set of Python wrappers for the GTK+ GUI library. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Xfce ([1]) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. Its configuration is entirely mouse-driven and the configuration files are hidden from the casual user. ... libtorrent is an open source implementation of the bittorrent protocol. ...

Deluge was created by two members of ubuntuforums.org, Zach Tibbitts and Alon Zakai, and was previously being maintained and hosted at Google Code, but has now moved to their own webpage, deluge-torrent.org. Google Code is Googles site for developers interested in Google-related development. ...

While under early development, Deluge was known as gTorrent, because it was to be a BitTorrent client for GNOME (the "g" in "gTorrent" stood for "GNOME"). When the very first version was released to the public on September 25, 2006, the client was renamed to Deluge to avoid implying that the client was GNOME-only. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

The 0.5 release, which is stable as of March 18, 2007, is a complete rewrite from the 0.4.x code branch. This was to do away with some of the coding conventions in the earlier versions, and to produce a cleaner, more polished final product. The second release in the 0.5.x branch, 0.5.1.1, added support for encryption, peer exchange, Si prefixes and upnp. In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten. ...

Features

• Torrent creation built into main client
• Plugins implemented as modules
• Supports network features such as Peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP
• Encryption in many ways at many levels

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See also

• Comparison of BitTorrent software

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of applications supporting BitTorrent. ...

External links

• Deluge Homepage
• Trac Page
• Deluge Forum