#1134 Exclude texstudio.ini from portable release

[PMcL]

Updating the portable version of texstudio is quite easy. You just copy the contents of the zip of the new version into the old versions folder, overwriting all existing files. There is just one - quite anoying - issue with this: the zip contains an empty texstudio.ini . So, if you forget to exclude that file when updating, you loose all you settings.

Is it possible, that you exclude the empty file texstudio.ini when generating the portable zip?

There might be some more files that I did not check (user dictionaries, etc.), that should be excluded if possible.

[Tim Hoffmann]

Leaving out texstudio.ini is not possible.

By definition a portable version is an executable with texstudio.ini next to it. If you would leave it out, the application would behave like a regular application and would use the settings directory.

There may be other ways to make the update of the portable version simpler, but I have to think about it.

[Tim Hoffmann]

From the next release on, the portable version will store all its settings in a subfolder config. This will be empty by default, such that you will be able to copy future versions ontop of an existing used one.

[PMcL]

Thanks, Tim. That sounds like a good solution!