Re: Gnumeric for windows as portable app

[Adrian Custer <acuster gmail com>]

Hey all,

The U3 thing may be slightly divorced from the portable app thing so I
suspect we can simply ignore U3. 

U3 seems to have been a technology (built by some USB key manufacturers)
to interface to the registry so apps could act as if they were writing
keys to the registry without actually doing so. Portable apps seems to
be a strategy to have apps write their configuration back into the
folder in which they are stored. There are many apps that are
'portable' (see portableapps.com) without needing U3. 

However, I understand none of this technology; the above understanding
is what I gleaned from an hour of work trying to understand what was
going on.

--adrian


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:47 -0500, Richard Bumby wrote:
> Adrian Custer wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Recently, I discovered the portable app phenomenon, for windows apps
> > loaded onto usb flash drives. The idea is that such apps are run from
> > the drive without having any need to interact with the windows registry
> > or any other system on the machine itself. This enables users to run the
> > apps even if they don't have elevated priviliges. 
> >
> > Is the windows port of gnumeric configured in a way that will allow it
> > to run in this way? If not, is there any reason to prevent this? I
> > suspect a portable gnumeric for windows would be a great way to expose
> > the project to a wider audience.
> >
> > Of course I realize that the windows port is yet another labour of love
> > and that it demands yet more of that time that no one has...:-)
> >
> > --adrian
> >
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>
> I, too, discovered U3 recently.  I thought that I was just getting a 2GB 
> USB drive, but it showed its U3 side when I plugged it into my notebook 
> computer running Windows. It came just in time, since some of the office 
> outposts that I need to use right now have  only Windows machines with 
> an uneven choice of software.  I have seen nothing about developing 
> software for this system, but Mozilla seems to be building its products 
> for U3, so it must not be a big secret.
>
> I add one more vote to the proposal that a U3 build of gnumeric be 
> considered.
>
> --RTBumby