Hi,
I've been wondering if it would make sense to run all my apps out of a single file eg. a zip file in order to avoid the myriad of small files some portable apps like perl[1] and R[2] have. Big installations with lots of small files makes writing the stuff to a usb drive very slow. I don't care much for the compression but rather that it is one file or a small number of files.
I saw the AppCompactor, but as far as I can tell it compresses one file at a time.
[1] http://strawberryperl.com/
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/rportable/
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It'll be slower as that whole zip has to uncompress locally before you can run the app. We've experimented with it in the past. The cons outweighed any pros.
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I'm very interested on this discussion. Chromium Portable includes a custom launcher that embeds the app into the launcher and uses 7-Zip for the data. I'm considering dropping it mainly due to the maintenance+testing burden.
I'd like to know where was this discussed. Also, was the runtime performance checked?
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It was discussed in the forums
I just did a quick search and found a couple answers:
https://portableapps.com/node/11322
https://portableapps.com/node/25456
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I know about what you've posted, and it's not what I am looking for.
The OP is asking for something like keeping the App\ directory zipped, and then it would be extracted automatically by the launcher into a temporary folder.
Something like this.
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