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Request: Portable Cygwin (svn, ssh, rsync, ftp, etc.)

Submitted by vparikh on May 15, 2007 - 12:58am

Cygwin would be an excellent candidate for inclusion as a true "Portable App".
It's well suited because of the plethora of utilities that are available with a Cygwin install.
Just the 'rsync' utility alone is enough to make it worthwhile.
A portable rsync would make it extremely easy to create backups of data without going through the pain of doing a full cygwin install on the local machine.
(ailing Windoze machine... I'm sure we've all had to deal w/ one of those)

Essentially Portable Cygwin =
Portable Subversion
Portable SSH
Portable perl
Portable python
Portable ruby

Request: Spacemonger, CCleaner, Xchat

Submitted by Thorlord on May 14, 2007 - 6:14pm

ive used the program Spacemonger for quite awhile, its great for knowing what large garbage is on your PC.

http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/v1x.php
even if its not officially integrated, its still a handy tool for anyone using their Portable apps flash drive as a diagnostic tool (thank god for ClamAV portable, thats was a huge help!)

another good one to integrate would be CCleaner
ive done it already, by creating a .bat file that has the lines:
regsvr32 /s ccleaner.dll
regsvr32 /s CCSubTimer.dll
regsvr32 /s CCSystem.dll
regsvr32 /s lang-1033.dll
start /wait ccleaner.exe

Gvim Portable already Exists :)

Submitted by becatlibra on May 13, 2007 - 10:16pm

Just thought everyone would LOVE to know! GVim is already available as a portable app! I thought it would be listed here but I don't see it. It installed fine and works great! Although I don't use the menu that you have - I don't remember where I got the one I use (it's called Pstart.) I read about it (and portable apps) in Windows IT Pro magazine.

Here is the link

http://portablegvim.sourceforge.net/

ConText programmers editor

Submitted by jackuul on May 11, 2007 - 6:25pm

"ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. " - http://context.cx

I have used this tool for years now and I like nothing else (it has over 200 highlighters) - it serves me for everything I do and I really admire the person who made it, just the same as I admire those who have created portableapps and the apps that go to it.

http://www.context.cx/content/view/18/41/

My "DreamTeam" App StartUp.-

Aciago's picture
Submitted by Aciago on May 10, 2007 - 4:35pm

I had an idea and I'm sure somebody thought on this before... But I just don't find a related post...

Suppose that you introduce your portable drive, M$Windows read the entire file system and then shows a window with options: Start YourApp (in my case "Run AciagoMovil"), play music, play video, open folder, do nothing, blablabla...

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