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ok, so PortableSVK 0.9.1 was buggy

in the end, it turns out that a problem in the XML file which is supplied with the source has a stray '\' character and this leads PortableSVK to fail when it tries to update the svk configuration file for the drive letter.

in the PortableSVK.xml file:

<data name="svkrepo" value="\projects\svk\" />

needed to change to

<data name="svkrepo" value="\projects\svk" />... read more

Portableprogram executables are simply this

exe+xml

if you are familiar with the command

copy /b file1+file2 file3

you already know how portableprogram works

basically I do this. I take the raw, compiled portableprogram executable, in this case, we shall use the PortableEclipse as an example.

it's compiled and sits in the "release" directory, to get it to look nice, I use a win32 resource editor to add a win32 icon to it, so it looks nice in the win32 explorer window. In the case of eclipse, I took the same icon (I am using the applications icons under the fair use protection, so I am fairly sure nobody can sue me, why would they want to anyway?)... read more

Right,

I thought to myself that this issue would come up and someone would ask me "isnt eclipse ALREADY portable?"

to which the answer is "yes"

eclipse is great, on my system, I have a portable drive, 80GB, which is where I run most of my stuff from, I find life is easier when you predictably run stuff from your portable device instead of relying on the computer you are at to give you the tools you need to do your job. So, on the portable drive, I have almost every tool I could ever want/use installed on it and setup in a way which means I can just drop it on, open the command prompt, set a path and GO!!!... read more

right, anyone else use utorrent?

I found out that you can use it more or less portably if you drop a settings.dat file into the same directory as the executable, just leave it empty, run utorrent and you'll find other files get written as well, this is utorrent recognising that it's going to run from the current directory!!

before you do this, create a new directory for utorrent and drop it in there along with the settings.dat file, cause otherwise you'll get your other directory full of files like I found out.... read more

Hey there,

well, I have been developing this project for a while, under a more simple name PortableMozilla, but I decided to expand the project to include other programs and applications that I can use with the same codebase, if you have any other applications, bugs or other issues, feel free to let me know what they are!!

right now, there are the following programs supported by portableprogram

Firefox
Thunderbird
Luxology: Modo
SVK (think: Subversion)
IBM: Eclipse... read more