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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not really. Well--maybe--but not in the way you think, and likely this won't happen for a bit.

Portable applications rely on a total lack of shared libraries; rather the complete autonomous packaging of everything needed to accomplish a particular task, and without installing anything.

CoApp on the other hand, is focused around packaging MSIs (kindof the antithesis of portable, eh) and providing a reliable and serviceable method for handling dependencies.

Now, that being said, It's certainly *possible* to transform a CoApp packaged app & it's libraries into one that doesn't do that, but you lose everything that makes CoApp valuable; well, with the exception that you still get an app out the other end.

Truthfully, I'd probably consider spending time about a year from now building a tool to build a portable app from a package feed, but not any time soon.

G

Garrett Serack | Open Source Software Developer | Microsoft Corporation 
I don't make the software you use; I make the software you use better on Windows.


-----Original Message-----
From: coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:10 PM
To: coapp-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Coapp-developers] Portable application deployment

Will CoApp support portable deployment (e.g. PortableApps or U3)?

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