General Discussion

Well I just started to try to compile The portable Apps Menu source codes, and realized that the Main Suite (Menu & Backup) is programmed in Borland Delphi, and even that we can find a "lite delphi flavor" for free use (like Turbo Delphi).

It is not OPEN SOURCE. And that focus the app to just windows too.

My opinion is: to develop the PortableApps Menu program in an OS (Open Source) Languaje to "make it a TRULY OS sofware".

I assume this was asked before, I hope though I will be forgiven for asking again.

What is actually done to the relevant programs in order to allow them to run of a USB stick?

I am only asking since my instructor wants to run a questionnaire program from a stick in order to save him carrying the laptop about.

Cheers DF

I've just heard via the chat room that we're splitting the room into two: #portableapps for development chat and #portableapps-support for support. I've discussed this with John before and thought I'd spill my thoughts here.

This is the wrong way to do it. #portableapps should be for support and #portableapps-dev should be for development. Why?

I put portableapps on my flash key but sometimes I need them on my desktop or laptop. I have installed and used this way for a year with no problems. Apparently, it leaves nothing in the registry? Why don't more MS programs work that way?

Is there any danger putting a portable app on a computer?

Firstly Great work guys - Portable apps are fantastic and make life soooo much easier when away from my machine!
One question: Is it possible to show the current version of programs on the applications page? I missed a few updates and now can't easily find what has been updated beyond the news list... would be great to just look through the apps page and check version numbers!
Thanks again for all the hard work guys

For all wondering, you are able to get Java on your flash drive to bring anywhere! You can also use compilers and runtime environments on your USB as well.

First, you have to have enough space on your drive. You need about 105 MB of space for the Java, and about 11 MB of space for the runtime environment. I would also recommend space to save your projects. So 120MB of space would suffice.

I remembered coming to this site when I was using Windows But it crashed somehow And I had to install Ubuntu Linux on it.I came here hoping Linux was now supported But still it wasn't.Like Firefox is available for Linux,So there must be a way to make portable versions of apps.

I run PortableApps from my harddrive, and for various reasons, the suite is installed to a deeper path, not a root directory.

This leads to a small annoyance: Every time I run a PA installer, it's unable to locate my PA root. The installer then suggests simply (e.g.) "\Notepad++" as the installation directory, which won't work. I need to edit the path every time.

I propose that the installer is modified to also support an environment variable for such a use case. In my case, I would set this as, e.g.
PORTABLEAPPS=C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
at the system level.

Just a quick note to whomever is interested:

I just registered for the forum, and felt that my way of using PortableApps was not adequately represented in the registration form.

I use the suite on all my PCs (4 physical, 1 work laptop, a couple of virtual machines, and 1 USB stick) - however, I use unison to synchronize the PortableApps folder between all of these instances. (Any other 2-way, conflict-resolving synchronization utility should be fine.)

why cant we have skype portable?