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[Stevan Pettit <781839@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

While some aspects of OpenLP may attempt to access the registry, the
portable app writes nothing to it.

The portable app launcher (which executes OpenLP.exe) has many options
(http://portableapps.com/manuals/PortableApps.comLauncher/ref/launcher.ini/index.html
#ref-launcher-ini) , one of which is [Environment].   This could be used
to append to %path%, pointing to the above mentioned additional apps.  I
have a machine (Win XP) which has never had Libre/Open office nor VLC
installed on it, and can use it for testing various scenarios.

I'd like to get OpenLP Portable running first, then we can deal with
these side issues.  Portable may mean "OpenLP with restrictions",  ie
Powerpoint, fonts, etc.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781839

Title:
  make openlp portable

Status in OpenLP - Worship Presentation Software:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Openlp should be able to run as a 'portable app, off a USB flash drive
  without the need to install it.

  However, for know there are technical limits in pyinstaller which
  prevents this feature to work properly.

  App created by Pyinstaller fails to run from a directory containing
  non ASCII characters.

  For next major release (version 1.6) it is planned to fix this.

  Until this is bug of pyinstaller is fixed, I think it is not worth to
  implement this feature.

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