I have made a cross-platform (Mac and Windows) portable app. It follows the PortableApps convention with the exception of an "Contents" folder that has Mac specific information. Would this mess up the portable application installer?
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Unfortunately, only an App and Other folder are picked up by the installer at the moment. A 3rd folder would be ignored at present. What app is it btw and how are you launching it from the app's root directory?
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It is Emacs. The structure of the directory is as follows:
EmacsPortable.App
EmacsPortable.App\EmacsPortableApp.exe
EmacsPortable.App\...
EmacsPortable.App\App\emacs-X.XX\...
EmacsPortable.App\App\emacs-X.XX\MacOS
EmacsPortable.App\Contents\...
EmacsPortable.App\Data\...
EmacsPortable.App\Other\...
The emacs-X.XX are the emacs windows binaries and support files
The MacOS are the compiled binaries for MacOS, but not the support files.
The Contents are a hacked Emacs Laucher for Mac; Everything is still stored in Data
Other has the NSIS launcher scripts.
I could make the launcher install the Contents directory after running to make it conform to the PAF installer, though this is not elegant.
The .App extension of the folder is required for this to be cross-platform.
You will need to set the AppID in appinfo.ini to EmacsPortable.App.
And as for the Contents folder, just add some custom code into the installer: (click here and scroll up three paragraphs to see what I mean).
How about if you had an Emacs.App folder inside EmacsPortable\App that then pointed to the Data directory to folders up?
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