And, what if the directory is not writable by an user... (I personally believe it should not be just to avoid single users messing with what others have to use)
On 8/12/07, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Misc wrote: > > > Regular (non-U3) portable applications: > > 1. Do not write to Windows Registry. That is a must. > > Wireshark doesn't do that (although that's mainly a result of it having > been written as a UN*X application). > > > 2. Do not write to system, AppData, and other folders outside of their > > own program folder, unless the path is configurable by the user. > > As per my mail, the standard Wireshark distribution *should* write to > the AppData folder, so a special portable distribution would be required. > > I phrased my question incompletely; what I really wanted to know is > what's done to take an application not originally designed as a portable > application, and intended to be able to be run as a non-portable > application, and arrange that packages be available to run it as a > portable application while continuing to have packages available to run > it as a non-portable application. > > The page at > > http://portableapps.com/development > > that Ulf mentioned discusses this. > > > If you have several computers with same software installed, > > synchronizing their settings can be a real nightmare. But if you simply > > use portable applications, it's very, very easy. You just capy the > > folder with portable apps to the new computer, and it just works! No > > installation, no configuration, no headaches... :) > > ...unless you have multiple users on the machine using the same > application, in which case their settings are shared, whether they want > that or not. (And, yes, that happens even with Windows.) It's not as > if portable is all benefits and no costs.... > > (There's also the question of an app that's fetched from a network file > server....) > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > Wireshark-users@wireshark.org > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users > -- This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself. -- Marshall McLuhan Propertarianism joined to capitalist vigor destroyed meaningful commercial competition, but when it came to making good software, anarchism won. -- Eben Moglen _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
