Portable App Development

I get my RSS feed that tells me new versions of my chosen apps are available, but I then have to manually grab the file and install it. Sometimes I read the feed, but forget to update an application.

I am wondering if anybody has thought about creating something similar to any of the existing package management systems out there.

Can anyone refer me to a site explaining how to start creating portable apps? Thank you

Hello John,

First of all thank you for all your hard work to support Open-Source software during the last years!

Now that we have all the current versions of the most important programs (OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, VLC media player, KeePass, GIMP [nearly up to date], Notepad++, Sumatra PDF) and the portable Java support, it would be great to see a new PortableApps Suite Standard release, the people out there would love it

Add all the nice games and the last PortableApps Menu and the users will soon get addicted.

Hi,

I can't "safely remove" my usb flashdisk until i shut down portableapps, and i can only do it via task manager.

I'm sure there are more elegant ways to go abt doing it, right clicking it's icon on the system tray does not reveal any options to shut it down. i noticed a X button on the application GUI itself could it be the button to shut it down? i tried clicking the button but nothing happens...

reinstalled the protableapps but still can't solve this problem...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/ethany/0f7da0dc.jpg

Could the released Portable Apps be zipped? - Drives me nuts waiting to get home from work to try them out as our work firewall blocks exes but not zips - :/

I thought these apps may be good for inclusion in the portable apps suite.

These work with Windows and Linux (wine) with little modification:
- WinSCP http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
- mutorrent (not open source) http://www.utorrent.com/
- Portable Tor http://sourceforge.net/projects/portabletor/

John, how do you set the directory structure up for the installer? Is it:
\AppPortable\
\AppPortable\Installer.nsi
\AppPortable\Files\App\
\AppPortable\Files\etc...

Is this correct?

Also, what are the Delete '$INSTDIR\App\openoffice\blah...' lines for?

Ok the the Server has identified my old post as spam, because I had too many links.
now i had created a blog for my themes. I will report you here however further of the news.

here my PAM THEMES

and here the OLD POST

NeoRame

where is my post??? yesterday it was here, since today i cant find it in the forum. my link (https://portableapps.com/node/7223) functions yet.

yet I can write no longer, and how I said see it no longer in the forum.

what is going on?????

NeoRame

Hi,

I just wanted to share some progress with everybody with making my personal web development tools work on USB and with the portableApps startup. I haven't been using it for long yet, and this is my first post on this forum... so please bare with me

Now, my web development setup is quite simple... I use Total Commander (shareware, ghisler.com) and vim. (vim.org)

Now you can just drag and drop the vim/vim70 (in my case, since I use 7.0) folder into your portable apps dir. You do not need the vimfiles dir for vim to work. (unless you heavily modded it, ofcourse :))