Request for Arduino

Thanks for your answer. I understand. I had hoped that there would
have been a change in the situation. It is too bad it has not been.

Hi all,
I wondered if the arduino IDE can be made portable myself, which lead me to this thread.

As a matter of fact, there's a couple of things that need clarification:
To run the IDE itself as for writing code, in which case it's no more than a glorified text editor (you'd better stick with Notepad++), there's no need to install any drivers at all.
There are drivers involved at some point, that's true, but that's not the entire truth.
If you then decide to download the binary output to an arduino board, it all depends on what board it is. Some boards run with an FTDI FT232 or similar, but that seems to be older board generations. Recent versions use an AtmegaxxUx chip, which would be a second driver required. And also there's the Due, running with an entirely different chip, which would be the third.

BUT, there's also the option of downloading code to an arduino board via a standard good old RS-232 port on your pc, which doesn't require any additional drivers (downloading code to an arduino generally uses a bootloader communicating via any serial port).

So the question if this can be made portable should not depend on the question 'does it require drivers?', as it can be used without. More of a problem might be, that it ships with it's own copy of java.
This would be an entirely different discussion.

My final thought on this: why not make winavr portable? take winavr and notepad++ and you can do almost anything the arduino IDE can.