PortableApps - PAF
lazarus / 8-Other

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TheBlackSheep · 2011-07-19 14:15

I wrote a program recently which I think would be quite useful to a
wider community - accordingly I thought I'd have a go at turning it
into a "PortableApps" type application (obviously only for Win) -  I
was following the guidelines for the PAF but got stuck with the
location for the translation "po" files - I think (according to the
spec) that these should go in a subdirectory called "Data" with any
other application data (config and persistence storage files).  The
DefaultTranslator unit by default doesn't try this path when looking
for the PO files (understandably) so I'd need to modify this somehow
to take into account an extra level of subfolders for it to look at.

Obviously this isn't particulaly relevant for a Linux/Mac version
although they could also certainly follow this convention without any
particular inconvenience (an installer for these platforms would just
need to create the sub-folders and put the files in there and the
application could still be the same across all platforms without any
specific per-platform configurations).

I wondered if anyone else had build any PortableApp's and therefore
come across similar issues and solutions (notably there is a
PortableApps beta of the Lazarus IDE for example so I'm assuming this
particular project must already have decided on what to do here).

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Takeda · 2011-08-03 23:37

Quote from: TheBlackSheep on July 19, 2011, 04:15:23 pmI wrote a
program recently which I think would be quite useful to a wider
community - accordingly I thought I'd have a go at turning it into a
"PortableApps" type application (obviously only for Win) -  I was
following the guidelines for the PAF but got stuck with the location
for the translation "po" files - I think (according to the spec) that
these should go in a subdirectory called "Data" with any other
application data (config and persistence storage files).  The
DefaultTranslator unit by default doesn't try this path when looking
for the PO files (understandably) so I'd need to modify this somehow
to take into account an extra level of subfolders for it to look at.

Obviously this isn't particulaly relevant for a Linux/Mac version
although they could also certainly follow this convention without any
particular inconvenience (an installer for these platforms would just
need to create the sub-folders and put the files in there and the
application could still be the same across all platforms without any
specific per-platform configurations).

I wondered if anyone else had build any PortableApp's and therefore
come across similar issues and solutions (notably there is a
PortableApps beta of the Lazarus IDE for example so I'm assuming this
particular project must already have decided on what to do here).

Cool..
BTW, I already download it and I feel it good..
Somehow I need portable Lazarus coz sometime I'm too lazy to bring my
laptop with me..

Regards,
Takeda.