Portable App Development

I am going to attempt to create a portable app using NSIS. To conform with the rest of portableapps.com . I have already Created the App there is only one problem. The program saves to a file and i want it to save to a file on the portable device. How will I solve changing drive letter issues as the program requires a filepath to save to.

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I apologize if this is confusing, but....

Just to showcase how much time I have, I've created a XML version of the AppInfo.ini including a Document Type Definition. Please note that although Firefox says the document is not valid XML, it lies. It's because it doesn't parse external DTDs.

Technical details follow.

Portable Application Information Description (PAID)
Each PAID document must conatin "appinfo" as the root element. The children of this element must be "name", "description", "guid", "version", "icons" and "launchers". It may also contain the optional "copyright" element.

Ok, so I'm trying to set the enviroment variable in NSIS for a program, and this one is from John's aMSN launcher for the UserProfile path. I tried this, and the programs settings are created in the Data folder under "Data\settings\Application Data\AppName"

I was wondering if the PortableApps.com Installer was going to be released with the exceptions for freeware/non-gpl-opensource programs soon. In the latest version of Thunderbird Portable it still only has the exception for PA apps. If not might it be possible for me to get permission to use it with Xenon and keep the MIT License?

Hi!
This is the First Commandment of portable software, isn't it? Well, may be Second. But any way, at the top of Ten Commandments.
While testing some apps on BetaTesting forum (and my own one, nobody is absolute :)), I noticed that many of them left traces in registry, in very common places like OpenWithList, MRUCache and so on. As for me, I just forgot to call the cleaning procedure after adding some new features to my app.

Is there a way to create the Silverfrost Fortran 95 compiler as a Portable App?

Is there a convenient way to create a Portable App menu item for a command line application?

I'm now officially opening this project.

The aim of this project to portablise each and every application from the OpenCDDisc. The current status of each is listed below.

• App name - Status/Project lead
• 7-zip - John Haller
• Abakt - John Haller (Unconfirmed)
• Audacity - John Haller
• Azureus - Ryan McCue
• Battle for Wesnoth - Geoff Shearsmith
• Blender - Geoff Shearsmith

For everyone who wants Claws-Mail made portable i am currently working on it and will relase it to beta section as soon as i get the first working beta done.