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Songbird Note

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on April 17, 2008 - 1:30am

For anyone wondering why Songbird Portable isn't out yet, I thought I'd give you an update. The majority of the code is complete for it, however we are still sorting out code to change drive letters in the SQLite database.

Okay, everyone happy? Now, stop bugging me Blum

Vote for next Official Apps 1

Submitted by Travis Carrico on April 17, 2008 - 12:32am

Hey everyone. after reading John's new update, i've taken it upon myself to create this thread. I think it would be a good idea to have a new one of these before each round of dev releases.

What apps do you think should be released in the next round of Developer releases? Among other things, keep in mind how useful the app would be portable and how popular it is. The apps also need to be ready enough to move to Pre-Release. The last round had 5 releases so i'm gonna go ahead and say list 5 and order them, with #1 being the most important.

Win95B compatable Portable Apps?

Submitted by vonr0 on April 16, 2008 - 11:11pm

Have any Portable Apps been created that would run under Windows 95b?

I have an old laptop that I can use a Compact Flash Card in a PCMCIA Slot with an adapter. It would be great if I could run Apps from that Flash Card because the internal RAM is sparse.

I'm just trying to ReUse the old laptop instead of chucking it out, as has been suggested many times.

R William

PortableApps.com Format: Draft 4 (2009-02-12) [OUTDATED]

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 16, 2008 - 11:09pm

The current PortableApps.com Format Specification is available here:
https://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format

Ok, I'm posting a quick outline for comment as the full spec isn't done yet and I'd like to get some more input from the community. Here are just the basics. Nothing too fancy. Please offer up any comments or suggestions. Thanks!

PortableApps.com Format Specification: Draft 4 (2009-02-12)

1. DIRECTORY LAYOUT

Q: distributing freeware apps

Submitted by Travis Carrico on April 15, 2008 - 7:51pm

i understand why we can't post most freeware apps here, because their license makes it illegal to modify them. but why can't we post freeware apps that have more flexible licenses to allow repackaging? the only reason we don't have official freeware apps is because of hosting, so if we have our own hosting, then we should be able to post them on the forums.

WinSCP suggestion winscp.com

Submitted by sgp on April 14, 2008 - 4:47am

The standard WinSCP distribution includes file winscp.com, a command-line interface to the WinSCP.exe executable. It's basically a command-line sftp client. The current portable version doesn't include winscp.com, could it be added to the next PAF version?
WinSCP.exe needs to be running already for winscp.com to work. From my limited testing, it doesn't seem to leave anything in the registry.
More info here http://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting

Edit .dat file with NSIS?

Submitted by Devo on April 11, 2008 - 8:57am

I'm working on improving the Winamp launcher, really the only thing left to do is make the media library portable. The issue is that the media library uses absolute paths and is stored in a .dat file. Is there a way in NSIS to find B:, C:, E: or whatever the path may be and replace it with the drive letter of the flash drive? I know you can do a find and replace, but will this work in a .dat file? Also, since the initial drive letter of the path can be anything, how would I do the find and replace for it? Thanks.

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