#342 Make self-contained program

[FML]

Hi,

I was thinking it would be nice if you could make
iPodder able to be installed with all its files in the same
directory. I'm hoping that would allow the application to
be installed onto a removable drive, like my SanDisk
Digital Audio Player, so that if I went out of town, I could
plug into someone's USB port, start the application, and
get all my podcasts.

JT

[Andrew Grumet]

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Ooooh that's a good idea. Thanks, we'll see what we can do.

[Pete Prodoehl]

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If you've used iTunes, in the Preferences it allows you to
choose where you store your music files. Perhaps the same
sort of pref could be added, so that you can set your
iPodder data directory with either an absolute path, or a
path relative to the iPodder app itself...

[Ernesto Bricca]

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needs that a config file is stored in the applications directory next to the
scripts -- indicating local/global(ev user defined) setting
.. id suggest a checkbox for standard global settings in the advanced prefs
tab with ev the option to set the appdir differently

[Brad Clarke]

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A hackish way to accomplish this is to start ipodder with
this batch file (I called it start_ipodder.bat)

@echo off
SET HOMEDRIVE=
SET HOMEPATH=
SET APPDATA=
start ipodder.exe

A "data" subdir will be created and the things that normally
went into Application Data will be stored there instead
(you'll probably want to copy of your existing config from
Applcation Data).

Linux users (OS X too?) could accomplish the same by
clearing HOME. Relevant code is here, in determine_paths():
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ipodder/iSpider/ipodder/configuration.py