I know .NET is totally impossible to portabilize, & that KPPro can malfunction using Novell's Mono, but an installer similar to the new Live ones (see Google Chrome Portable or Skype Portable) can be used so that it installs KPPro as usual AND gather the necessary libraries from the PC in which the installer is running copying them to the KeePassPortable/app/keepass/ folder. I have been recently using KPPro in W7 RC & I now find totally impossible to use again the old KeePass. Could somethting like this be done?
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As you say, .NET is totally impossible to make portable. Am I missing something, or is that what you're asking about?
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I'm wondered if a portable version of KeePass 2 could be done if the installer copies the .Net libraries from a local install or download them. That shouldn't break any license, does it?
.NET needs to be installed at the OS level which requires admin privs and a reboot.
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As has been discussed, KeePass 2.x requires .NET and thus can't be portable.
.NET is only included on Windows Vista and later by default. On Windows XP, it requires a user with admin rights to manually add it in and reboot the machine. Windows XP machines currently make up 77% of all Windows machines in use.
So, a .NET-based application will work on some machines and not others and the user won't be able to tell whether it will or won't ahead of time. On most PCs the user encounters outside of home, it won't work as .NET won't be installed.
KeePass 1.0 is continuing development. There's currently no reason to use 2.0 over 1.0. And 2.0 uses a different database format that's not compatible with KeePass for many other systems (like KeePassDroid that I use on my Android phone).
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Thanks John. One more reason I'm getting the Motorola Droid as soon as it becomes available down under. I wasn't looking forward to migrating my KeePass Portable database to something that could sync with an Android password manager so that bit of info is very much appreciated
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What are the advantages of v2.x over v1.x? It was my understanding that it was mainly a development platform change that would allow easier development of future version but it wasn't ever clear exactly how they would translate in terms of features.
I have no complaints of the 1.x series and am quite happy to run that as my portable app of choice without getting into sticky territory of .net
I would argue that .net is no different from Java so that if you can run java apps portably (by virtue of the fact that you can run Java portably) then you can run .net apps portably but the fact that .net is a Microsoft probably cuts a hole in my theory.
Still, again it really comes down to the fact that is there any reason to prefer v2.x over 1.x (at least at this early stage of development)?