Portable App Development

I think I understand that PA.c apps are meant to be launchers for other embedded apps.

However, while writing my first PA.c app, I am also writing the app itself. I have no intention of releasing a non-PA.c version of the app, so there's really no point to me as a developer to have to embed a simple app with a launcher when I could just put the app as the launcher.

If someone really wanted to use the software without PA.c, I might just offer a .zip they could put wherever they like.

Is this allowed? Does it violate some underpinnings of PA.c that I'm not aware of?

Would it be legal to make a portableapps version of Lamexp?
http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/

I'm asking because this program include lame mp3 encoder and i have read that this would be illegal in some country's?

The license of this program states this:

LameXP is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY

OK, so I'm just starting out looking into making apps and maybe portablizing(?) some others and now I'm confused about licensing again.

Looking at the Autoruns PA page, I see it's listed as freeware. However, according to it's help file:

"You may not distribute Autoruns without permission from Sysinternals. To request permission contact licensing@sysinternals.com."

Also the EULA states:

You may not:

* work around any technical limitations in the binary versions of the software;

Hello,

I need to modify a file of a program called 'profile' which is located in '\AppPortable\App\AppName\folder'.

In order to avoid that my modified 'profile' is being overwritten by the original one I added the following to my installer.ini:

[FilesToPreserve]
PreserveFile1=App\AppName\folder\profile

I want to create an online installer which downloads the source code and extracts it to \App\AppName:

AdvancedExtract1To=App\AppName
AdvancedExtract1Filter=*

Is there any possibility that coming down the pike will be the ability in the PortableApps Platform to change the Download Directory for updates so that I can save a backup of the installers?

1. Usage of the section [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty]

   Suppose a program named AppName writes its settings in the following two registry keys:

   • HKCU\Software\AppName_1\settings_1
   • HKCU\Software\AppName_2\settings_2

   Furthermore after saving of these both registry keys by the launcher the registry keys HKCU\Software\AppName_1 and HKCU\Software\AppName_2 will be left empty.

   Is it in this case correct, that I use the following code, where the key names are consecutive integers?

   [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty]
   

I am working on creating the installer for my new app Out2Lunch which is just a batch file. Doesn't need to be compiled as it's opensource, and cmd.exe runs it just fine. However, I think the Installer only recognizes .exe files as program files as it gave me an error about 'No .exe files found'. So I created a fake .exe file. Now Installer runs OK, but leaves out the batch file when I try to actually install it. the appinfo.inin file correctly identifies the batch file as the program to launch.

Hello,

How can I create a working launcher for a .vbs script?

My launcher.ini contains the following line:

[Launch]
ProgramExecutable=Git\Git Bash.vbs


The launcher .exe is built without any errors but when running, the .vbs script does not show up. The path to the .vbs script is definitely correct.

Any ideas?

14February2013

I would like to submit/say - for what it is worth -
that "portable" apps should NOT write to registry!

Writing to the registry defeats the whole purpose/design of "portable" apps!

How many PA.com "portable" apps (now) write to the registry?
Does anyone have any idea?
Far too many PA.com apps (now) write to the registry - in my opinion.
PA.com should flag/point-out/specify apps that write to the registry!

I have been using PA.com µTorrent for years.
I download/"install" the µT PAF to a temp directory on my f drive,

For the Portable App I'm making, I need to write a registry key that has the directory of the app. So, I tried using FileWrite to change the .reg file before its added; however, nothing seems to be happening. To test it, I made a file in \Data\Settings called test.txt with D:\CivilizationIIIPortable as what's in it. I then set the last drive to D. In my launcher, I have:

[FileWrite3]
type=Replace
File=%PAL:DataDrive%\Settings\test.txt
find=%PAL:LastDrive%
replace:%PAL:Drive%