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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's certainly *possible* for apps. Shared libraries are a different story (side-by-side makes this difficult).

Hmmm. I just had an odd, and potentially interesting way to handle that.

I'm going to have to thinkabit on that. We may be able to support that right out of the box.... *blink*

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.

From: Rafael Rivera [mailto:rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:50 PM
To: Garrett Serack
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Portable application deployment

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<mailto: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.


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From: coapp-developers-bounces+garretts=microsoft.com<http://microsoft.com/>@lists.launchpad.net<http://lists.launchpad.net/> [mailto:coapp-developers-bounces+garretts<mailto:coapp-developers-bounces%2Bgarretts>=microsoft.com<http://microsoft.com/>@lists.launchpad.net<http://lists.launchpad.net/>] On Behalf Of Gerald Combs
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Subject: [Coapp-developers] Portable application deployment

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

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