(These suggestion(s) might have already been discussed before.)
I realize this can effectively be done by using the any of the existing suites and then installing whatever is missing, but:
How about creating a "full"/"ultra" suite, which includes all of the PortableApps?
This might be fast and convenient for those who have portable drives with greater storage than 512 MiB.
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It's already been discussed here, but since it's not a big deal for me, I haven't read the ideas. Give it a look, your question might already have been answered.
EDIT: It would seem that a full package of all the apps is planned, but it will not be updated as often as the other packages.
There are multiple versions of the same kind of program, such as OpenOffice and AbiWord, as well as Miranda and Pidgin, as well as FireZilla, FireFTP and WinSCP. So it wouldn't be practical to make a full suite.
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somebody with a blog (it's not allowed here because it uses too much links) that copy, analyze and make an abstract with download links of all those Apps commented in all those post about "What I have in my PDrive" or related title...
What do you think?
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its a good idea. But I think it would be better to not do it in a blog.
Rather something like Ryans of Apps being worked on.
And the devs and some other folks here have blogs...Steve for example used his to write news about toucan...
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At first I was for an ultimate PAM but as time goes by I'm starting to reconsider that because I might like to see a different approach altogether.
Instead of separate installers I think I rather see one main menu installer with an option to select additional packages that will be downloaded through the setup or even the PAM menu. This has several advantages;
only needs one installer for the main menu, which is easier to maintain. And selecting the downloads as a package (minimum, light, medium, full) it does not have anything out of date. If John ever decides such an approach for the suites I would be very happy. (Not to mention ease the maintenance of different packages/ installers)
The biggest bore about downloading all apps yourself seems to be navigating the web pages and downloading all installers, then installing them all. I'm not sure what others would think of this approach, but I think it would be a way to have the best of all worlds.
A custom fit solution
What are your thoughts about this? (I'm sure such an approach has been discussed before.... I think)
where you can choose which updates to do, as well as seeing which ones you have done in the past. I'd like it.
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Ryan has a nicely thought out proof of concept for doing just that, at least for updates, but probably to allow other things to be selected for install. No word on when it will get implemented.
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I've actually had the idea for a long time and wrote a proof-of-concept for that in NSIS. That Delphi code was sorta converted from that.
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Oh so this will be eventually into the Portable Apps menu? Did you use an rss feed to use to have the lists of software?
It will download an INI from the PA server and compare the entries to it's local copy.
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I was just wondering because rss (and xmp in general) is already useful as a news feed and to have it combine as an update feed would have been also very useful.
I hadn't thought of that, though it does make sense. Do you have any examples of it or who does use it like that?
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