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Crating your own portable LibreOffice package, how?

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kensai
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Crating your own portable LibreOffice package, how?

Hi,

Basically I like to play around with bleeding edge software, and thus would like to use the development version of LO/OOo.
IIRC, OOo used to have a very tedious process of making it portable.

Is it still true for LO?
What would roughly be the procedure and about how much time does it take per release?

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see for yourself...

The launchers are using the PortableApps.com Launcher, so you'll find most of the work in App\AppInfo\Launcher\LibreOfficePortable.ini, and there's some custom code in there in Other\Source\*.nsi written in NSIS. I took a peak at the INI, and it does look a bit ugly.

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wrong concept entirely?

Maybe I have a completely wrong concept here, but just compiling the *Portable.exe seems not to cut it. With simpler apps, you can just copy the install dir to the apps dir. With LO, there seem to be a lot of changes in the directory structure, even completely removed files.

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