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olivierkes
A windows portable version?
The official release for Windows is created with PyInstaller and is a single zip file that contains the files needed to run Manuskript (if that is what you mean by "portable").
If you wish to run the most recent code that we are actively developing, but has not yet been bundled into an official release, then see Run Manuskript from Source Code on Windows.
Note that there is at present no true 'portable' support. The Windows version does write into the Registry, and it looks inside of your profile for its relevant directory. Save for changing the source code, there is no way to prevent this at present.
It has been my intention for a while to do some 'spring cleaning' on the multitude of ways in which Manuskript stores its settings under the hood, and perhaps I'll get around to exploring it now that 0.10.0 is released. If I don't forget, perhaps I can take special care to take the needs of a 'portable' installation into concern... but as of yet I haven't done much towards making this happen.
Also note that any such portable version will also have to take some special care and testing in regards to supporting Pandoc properly; I suspect that would also have to go on a portable device, and our detection logic for it would have to be adjusted.
I will also appreciate a portable version which does not write data and settings to AppData and to Windows registry but saves it all to program folder, A truly portable version would have several advantages- it would be easier to move it between machines, it would be handier to back it up, the user would be able to use different versions with different settings (excellent for testing) or same version with different data. By the way there is even a portable version of pandoc. I prefer to use portable versions of programs if such are available so that can move them from machine to machine with all their data and settings saved and also create back-ups on external drives in case I need to re-install Windows or switch to another machine. So I think that if a portable version of Manuskript is available (or an option to run the program in portable mode) this would add some extra flexibility to this very promising project.
@smaragdus @magicvince I made a portable app installer using portableapps.com's toolkit. https://1drv.ms/u/s!Am4ziK_E9cCnhKpAkZ-by9Xlq7n8Jg?e=cQciBh
I can setup a github repo with everything that I've done to make this as well, just in case you done trust the pre-packaged installer.
Any traction here ?
It would be nice to get manuskript into downstream repos like Chocolatey and Winget.
There's some discussion on that matter in a different issue (#1053). As far as I understand it the other issue wants an installer or installation wizzard. This issue here wants support for packaging on Windows?
