First let me say I'm a portable apps junkie, and as such I wanted to try to build one myself and also try to give back to the community a bit.
I always thought that for an app to be truly portable it never wrote anything to the computer. It wasn't until I started digging into the scripts that I realized some of it is copying and files/settings to and from the host computer.
Anyway, I've created a portable version of JetAudio. The biggest issue I see with it now is that it needs admin rights to run on Vista/Windows 7 because it needs to write to HKLM as well as to the Common Files folder.
What's the best way to get this up so I can get some feedback on it? I have an installer I created with the extracted JetAudio files in it - is it ok to post that, or should I just post the launcher with instructions for adding JetAudio into the launcher?
Thanks
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I think I would want to see the limitation of having to write to the HKLM removed before I would want to try it out. I know that some "portable" apps have dependencies that require writing to the local machine, but I myself prefer ones that leave no trace. It just makes it cleaner and then everything is left back the way it was before I stuck my drive in the machine.
On the other hand - there is a beta section of the forums, perhaps you could post it their and ask for feedback.
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Well the launcher does remove/backup the HKLM keys on exit. I would have ignored them if not for the fact that they include pointers to paths (i.e. skins directory, etc).
Perhaps it's possible for it to run without those keys. Let me do some more testing - leaving those keys off and see how it functions and if it tries to re-create those in the registry.
What you're describing is a stealth app. All the apps here (with the possible exception of Google Chrome--which is now in revision, I think) are stealth, as in they leave no trace. Most of the apps do still write to the host computer, but the launcher cleans up after them in that case. Note however, they aren't securely deleted, though, meaning if somebody was CRAZY over your info, they can find some trace, but not many people are that insane.
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Not Stealth, please do not use that term
PA.c apps are not stealth, never have been, never will.
Properly functioning apps in the .paf format remove all personal data from the host if any is there and remove registry entries created by the apps themselves.
They do not remove traces/indications that they were even run, which is what stealth really means.
The apps are intended to be "clean" not "secret"
PortableApps.com apps are NOT stealth, and are not intended to be.
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What is the license for JetAudio? (Their website won't come up right now so I can't go look for myself). Reason I'm asking is if it's not Free Open Source, and it's just "freeware", you'll need to ask the original author for permission to make it portable (I think that's how they're doing freeware). Point being, if that's the way PortableApps is handling freeware, and you ask the author and they say "no, you can't do that", you just wasted a whole bunch of time unless you keep the code for personal use.
The info I'm going by regarding freeware is from this post:
https://portableapps.com/news/2009-10-22_-_portableapps.com_debuts_freew...
According to that post, you have some work to do contacting the author(s) of JetAudio to get their permission to "repackage it".
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