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 <title>For Komodo Edit, yes</title>
 <link>http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/portable-apps-install#comment-4692</link>
 <description>&lt;p&gt;Komodo Edit is open source, so making Komodo Edit portable is totally allowed. I&#039;m not sure however if you will run into problems because Komodo Edit is installed via MSI on Windows. I&#039;m unsure if it works to just install Komodo Edit on a system and package it from the install.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A key part of this will be getting Komodo to look for its preferences on the portable drive; this at least is easily done using the KOMODO_USERDATADIR environment variable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;
JeffG&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:36:14 -0700</pubDate>
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 <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone. I&#039;m new, so hope I&#039;m posting this in the right place. I&#039;d like to make a &lt;a href=&quot;portableapps.com&quot;&gt;Portable Apps&lt;/a&gt; distribution for Open Komodo. Currently the only editor they have is Notepad++, which obviously does not hold a candle to Komodo. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The idea behind portable apps in a nutshell is to take anything that is path dependent about an application and use environment variables instead so the app can be installed on a portable hard drive or USB stick. It doesn&#039;t rebuild the actual app, just dynamically maps path and config type data so the app can function&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&#039;t mind doing the work and writing all the NSIS scripts to do this and make a distribution wrapper available, but I&#039;m having a heck of a time finding all the dependencies. Is there a set of documentation I haven&#039;t found that would contain all that info?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is this allowable under license or distribution restrictions?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many thanks in advance.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:24:39 -0700</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>AWFord</dc:creator>
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