← Back to team overview

zim-wiki team mailing list archive

Re: Announcing an installer for Zim on Windows

 

> You may have seen my message a month ago saying that I was planning to build
> a Windows installer for Zim. Well, here you go:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/zimdesktopwiki-windows/
>
> I could not come up with a convenient way to download large dependencies
> (Perl + GTK) from upstream sources during installation, so I included a
> customized copy of camelbox <http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/> in the
> installer. Since that makes the installer 21MB in size, I thought it would
> be best to host it at Google Code, rather than on the Zim web site or my web
> site.
>
> Jaap, if you want to link to this on the Zim web site, you might want to
> include a word of caution. This is a first release, and while it probably
> won't eat your babies, it will eat up 74MB of space after installation.
>
> Thanks to Eugene Schava who contacted me privately and emailed his previous
> work on the subject to me.
>
>
> Brendan Kidwell
>

Thanks. I don't have a Windows machine handy to check, but is this a
"portable app", that is, can it be run without leaving traces on the
computer:
http://portableapps.com

If so, it would allow me to keep my Zim notes with me for access on
the locked-down univeristy computers.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü



Follow ups

References