Portable App Development

There are some outdated apps which cannot be upgraded. Is it not better to notify people of this on the download page of the apps?

For example, we can show a message like this on the Openoffice.org page:

Openoffice.org has a more recent version, [latest_version_number] but we do not have a portable edition since we do not have legal approval to do this.

im not sure how to ask this but hypothetically, say an app looks in %COMMONFILES% for files.

is there a way to force the app to look for those files elsewhere?
reasoning, the size of that directory is large and takes time to move back & forth.

would be nice if i could tell the app to look in the $AppDirectory.

thanks, if anyone can help.

I'm in the process of fixing bug #26187, but keep having an issue with some custom code I'm adding to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is what I have so far, and here is the last few lines from the generator log.

I can't figure out what macro I'm defining here.

Note that I've tried with both Rename, and with the sections commented out, and both produce the same error.

I've been thinking about releasing a portable package for MySQL Workbench, but I'm concerned on licensing. While the community edition is GPL, I'm unsure if there would be a problem with the 'MySQL' name and the fact that Oracle owns it. Any thoughts?

Well, 2 actually...

For starters, it's creating a file in "...\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RANDOMFOLDERNAME\isd2update[1].upt," and judging by the filename is pretty traceable.

Also, I was looking through the options, and studying them more carefully, and it seems to me that a little ignorance on the user's part can make the app less portable (running on startup, of course, but also allowing the user to set boottime defrag, and allowing the user to shut down the computer automatically when defragmenting is over...)

I'm wondering if it's possible to create a launcher for an app with multiple executables, similar to OpenOffice.org, but using the PortableApps.com Launcher?

The appinfo.ini file has support for multiple executables, but where is the counterpart in the launcher.ini? Is there one? Or does this have to be done with Custom code?

I'm not sure how widespread this issue may be, so I thought I would just throw the idea/issue out there and see whether anyone thinks it is worth spending time on.

Basically the problem is that Java apps will break if they require Java 7 but jPortable 6 is installed, even when a local install of Java 7 exists.

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Category: Utilities
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OK, I'm trying to do an old version of Serv-U FTP server. ServU6Portable.ini is set to write the paths to the serv-u ini. Something like:

[FileWrite3]
File=%PAL:AppDir%\ServU6Portable\ServUDaemon.ini
Type=ConfigWrite
Entry=Access1=
Value=%PAL:DataDir%\FTP|RL

and it works fine normally, but if I compress the whole package as an SFX Rar set to execute the PA launcher, the paths get written with DOS names, like:

Access1=C:\DOCUME~1\user\LOCALS~1\Temp\RarSFX0\Data\FTP|RL

and this causes access to be stopped.

Hi everyone, i have a question about the use of the compactor app...
I often use it with my apps, but i was wondering what happens when a compacted applications gets an update from te portableapps site...

Do the "compression" get lost?
I think this cause the "update" (if i'm not wrong) it's a new installation over the old one, so probably the new files will be uncompressed.
Am i wrong?