Re: Portable AbiWord

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, John T. Haller wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:45:52 -0500
> From: John T. Haller <abiword@johnhaller.com>
> To: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Portable AbiWord
>
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> > As you have probably we already use NSIS, it is one of the few significant
> > changes I made to the codebase (although others did do all the integration
> > work with the build system and all the maintaince work).
> >
> > The coded needed to generate PorableAbiword could probably be integrated
> > into the official build system quite easily, integrating UPX and 7z
> > compression would be only slightly more complicated as far as I can tell.
>
> Eventually handing it off and having it be a part of the official
> AbiWord build process would be a nice end-goal. I can think of a few
> things we should probably add first, though (like a commandline switch
> to point AbiWord to a different directory to get its settings rather
> than faking a USERPROFILE variable in the launcher.. which causes side
> effects) so the more official version is nice and solid.

If there isn't already a request for this and you need to file one please
do add me to the CC list. Maybe it a command line flag is more than
is really needed at it might even be enough even for abiword to
check the same directory as the binary for a profile (hell maybe that si
already possible, I'd better go try and read the code).

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Jan 11 20:48:05 2006