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March 6, 2006 - 2:53pm
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Bashir
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Why PortableApps only for M$ Windows !

Now ... i'm using this suite of Apps it's so great but the big two qustions are :

Why Linux users cann't use this nice suite ?

i'm Linux user i've poor experience about programming so i cann't found the right path to join with development team for this wonderful suit ,so how i can join to Linux development team to make this suit work on Linx too?

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March 6, 2006 - 2:57pm
John T. Haller
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Two reasons

1. There hasn't been much developer interest

2. The apps work in WINE

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March 8, 2006 - 2:46pm
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You are freely allowed to

You are freely allowed to work on linux portable applications, noone stops you. If there will be developer that will want to programm for Linux then he will do that, current programmers are working with Windows enviroment.
Much more, it would be a bit harder making portable applications for Linux, since there are many distributions, user mostyl would need to compile application everytime ...
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March 9, 2006 - 12:46pm
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Several reasons to give
  • Different GCC versions among distros
  • Different GCC versions among distro releases
  • Library requirements require most C++ apps to be compliled statically to be portable making them much larger.
  • Apps written in portable interpreted languages are already portable. Bash, Perl, Python, Java.
  • Security measures can prevent apps from being launched from portable media (e.g. Portable drives listed in fstab with noexec option
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