Created attachment 116427 [details] Folder statistics The program size of KDevelop on Windows x64 has changed significantly during the 5.2.x release series, and the issue persists with version 5.3.0. Version | 5.2.0 | 5.2.4 | 5.3.0 -------------------------------------- Installer (MB) | 111 | 143 | 143 Installed (MB) | 415 | 707 | 709 The changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.4 appear to have introduced the size difference (even though 5.2.4 is supposedly just a bugfix release for 5.2.0). Nevertheless, the issue persists with 5.3.0 (whose size is almost identical to 5.2.4), so I have listed the bug for 5.3.0. HOW TO REPRODUCE: 1) Download the Win64 installers from https://download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop/5.2.0/bin/windows/kdevelop-5.2.0-x64-setup.exe (replace 5.2.0 by 5.2.4 or 5.3.0 for the other versions) 2) Verify the different sizes of the installers. 3) Run the installers and check "Space required" on the 2nd or 3rd window. (Note that these values are estimates and differ slightly from the actual sizes which I gave above.) 4) To observe the actual sizes of the installed programs (this takes a few minutes): start by installing one of the three versions, make a copy of C:\Program Files\KDevelop, uninstall KDevelop, install the next version, and so forth.
Thanks for the analysis! For the record, I've fixed a packaging bug for the upcoming 5.3.1 already: Problem was Qt5WebKit & some LLVM dll ending up in the archive while they shouldn't be there. The installer size is 131 MB for 5.3.1 right now. Would need to do a file listing diff in order to check where the other size increase came from... At some point we also switched from Qt5WebKit to Qt5WebEngine, and the latter is significantly larger. That could be one explanation.
You're very welcome, and thanks for picking this up. A quick look at the folders shows significant differences between the three versions. For instance, the file count went from ~7000 in 5.2.0 to ~9000 in 5.2.4, back to ~7000 in 5.3.0. A folder diff between 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 also shows siginificant differences in both directions, with either version containing many files which the other version doesn't. I am not sure how to interpret these results (I can upload the file lists if you're interested, but they are >7000 lines each).
If it's not too much work, then please zip and upload them here. Thanks!
Created attachment 116443 [details] File lists for all three versions Uploaded. Hope they are useful.
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