And, what if the directory is not writable by an user... (I personally
believe it should not be just to avoid single users messing with what
others have to use)
On 8/12/07, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Misc wrote:
>
> > Regular (non-U3) portable applications:
> > 1. Do not write to Windows Registry. That is a must.
>
> Wireshark doesn't do that (although that's mainly a result of it having
> been written as a UN*X application).
>
> > 2. Do not write to system, AppData, and other folders outside of their
> > own program folder, unless the path is configurable by the user.
>
> As per my mail, the standard Wireshark distribution *should* write to
> the AppData folder, so a special portable distribution would be required.
>
> I phrased my question incompletely; what I really wanted to know is
> what's done to take an application not originally designed as a portable
> application, and intended to be able to be run as a non-portable
> application, and arrange that packages be available to run it as a
> portable application while continuing to have packages available to run
> it as a non-portable application.
>
> The page at
>
> http://portableapps.com/development
>
> that Ulf mentioned discusses this.
>
> > If you have several computers with same software installed,
> > synchronizing their settings can be a real nightmare. But if you simply
> > use portable applications, it's very, very easy. You just capy the
> > folder with portable apps to the new computer, and it just works! No
> > installation, no configuration, no headaches... :)
>
> ...unless you have multiple users on the machine using the same
> application, in which case their settings are shared, whether they want
> that or not. (And, yes, that happens even with Windows.) It's not as
> if portable is all benefits and no costs....
>
> (There's also the question of an app that's fetched from a network file
> server....)
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