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Portable Apps install?
Hi everyone. I'm new, so hope I'm posting this in the right place. I'd like to make a Portable Apps distribution for Open Komodo. Currently the only editor they have is Notepad++, which obviously does not hold a candle to Komodo.
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't rebuild the actual app, just dynamically maps path and config type data so the app can function
I don't mind doing the work and writing all the NSIS scripts to do this and make a distribution wrapper available, but I'm having a heck of a time finding all the dependencies. Is there a set of documentation I haven't found that would contain all that info?
Is this allowable under license or distribution restrictions?
Many thanks in advance.
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Komodo Edit is open source, so making Komodo Edit portable is totally allowed. I'm not sure however if you will run into problems because Komodo Edit is installed via MSI on Windows. I'm unsure if it works to just install Komodo Edit on a system and package it from the install.
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.
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JeffG