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[Rafael Rivera <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a short-term workaround, someone could in theory install a CoApp package
administratively (msiexec /a INSTALLDIR=X:\).

/rafael

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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-----
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> microsoft.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:10 PM
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> Subject: [Coapp-developers] Portable application deployment
>
> Will CoApp support portable deployment (e.g. PortableApps or U3)?
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