WinMerge Portable 2.6.8 Pre-release 4 (Testers needed)

You are on fire, Ryan (or you have too much free time :wink:). Well, I'll test it out.

EDIT: Forgot to post back. Works fine, nothing left behind.

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Great, I'll test it out. I thought John said he was doing this one and just hadn't posted it?
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It's better not to rush for the sake of rushing, ya know. I took a look and here are the issues I found:

1. Missing help file
2. Icon should only include 16px, 32px and 48px at 256 color and Win XP (this applies to the launcher and to the appicon.ico file)
3. Remove the extra directories and INI checks from the launcher. We're just doing AdditionalParameters and DisableSplash going forward
4. Copyright lines (remember, you do not own the copyright on the work. you have to leave mine intact and add your own. "based on" is not sufficient. and you can't put your name in legal copyright since you don't own it. I'm switching to 'PortableApps.com and contributors' for that even though I own the copyright on the code for most of em.)
5. Paths not updated. You're not updating the paths in the registry. Things like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Thingamahoochie\WinMerge\Files\Left need to be updated if you're running from the same drive. It's a convenience thing. And you don't even need to write code to do this as I have it in a few different launchers. Use a string replace in file on the .reg file and track the drive letter between launches. Check VirtualDub for an example on this one.
6. Bad launcher version number - The launcher version is for the launcher, not the app. It should be 1.4.0.0 since that's about where we are. All of them stay consistent between generations. That way we know what features are in them. And we don't have to recompile them unnecessarily when there's an app update but the launcher has no changes.

Remember, this isn't a race. We're trying to build these things right. We've gotten to the point where people expect a consistently high-quality, near-finished product when we post a pre-release.

I don't have any need for it but I test it anyway...;-)
It leaves nothing but I had t copy (actually I had to download & copy) MFC71.dll, MSVCR71.dll and MSVCP71.dll into the App/winmerge folder.

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman

I spent a bunch of time yesterday (Aug 10) looking for a directory comparison tool (I had one years ago, but can no longer find it). So I settled on WinMerge being the one I liked the most. This morning I check here and Ryan has already portablized it. Cool.

It has a small window that says "test" as it starts up.

It has the same need for MFC71U.DLL, resolved the same way.

I had assumed there was *nothing* left behind in the registry, that doesn't seem to be completely true, but it's pretty benign, mostly OpenSaveMRU kind of stuff.

By comparison, Sumatra PDF Portable doesn't seem to leave behind the OpenSaveMRU keys, but FreeCommanderPortable does.

Great job, thanks once again, guys

Jeff

Pre-release 2 does not seem to start up on my machine. I see your test splash screen and then nothing happens. I am running it from a Western Digital Passport 60GB on Windows XP SP2. When I click on the .exe within the apps folder the program starts up fine. The drive letter assigned to my HD is I:. Looks like an interesting app though.

Nice app, works and looks fine!
Does it automatically determines which language to use when it starts? That's great!
And... a fly in the ointmen
The program leaves traces in two points of registry, that admins and other supervisors very like to take a walk there :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\[extention]\OpenWithList