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Merge many EXE file into one

Imaggens's picture
Submitted by Imaggens on December 22, 2007 - 4:00pm

Hi, people.

Today I made my first Portable Application. It's a System Utility with many task and tools...

But, are many EXE files (25 actually). And I want to merge these into one.

The original application has a file called Integrator, that invokes other files by an own menu.

My idea is join these 24 files into Integrator, with internal links that I don't know how works.

It's possible?

Thanks

Perl Portable

Shawn Faucher's picture
Submitted by Shawn Faucher on December 21, 2007 - 11:58pm

Is there interest in a PortableApps wrapper for Perl (specifically ActivePerl)? Granted ActivePerl is fairly portable on its own, however with a PA wrapper putting things in a standardized place other portable apps could then use a shared Perl install.

The downside to this is ActivePerl is not fully Open Source, so it would need to be packaged without it and require users to download and install it in the correct location (PerlPortable\App\Perl). Is it worth the trouble?

Installer warning

Shawn Faucher's picture
Submitted by Shawn Faucher on December 20, 2007 - 3:45pm

The PA.com installer (all versions that I've seen) generates a warning when compiled:

unknown variable/constant "{SectionMain}" detected, ignoring

This is caused by the following line in function LeaveDirectory:

SectionGetSize ${SectionMain} $1 ;=== Space Required for App

This can be fixed by moving the Section above the Functions, and changing the Section header to read:

Section "!App Portable (required)" SectionMain

Is there a reason this hasn't been or shouldn't be done?

What to do after beta...

Shawn Faucher's picture
Submitted by Shawn Faucher on December 19, 2007 - 2:46pm

With a pending release of Gnucash Portable in the near future the question now is how does one go about getting permission to use the PA.com logo etc and have their application added to the official site? I did some forum searching and there was a lot of talk a few months ago about PA.com soon adding support for outside developers, but nothing seems to have come from it. Nor does there seem to be any info on how the current crop of developers came to 'join the fold.'

Can anyone enlighten me?

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