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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Again, the calibrePortable dev test version by prapper just downloads the latest release of calibre-portable-0.8.xx.zip so it's never behind - at least, not until calibre moves to 0.9 or higher. I don't think Kovid has made any changes to the parameters used to "portabilize" calibre so there really wasn't a need to create a new portable installer everytime a new version of calibre was released.  |
The changes to ensure portability was a custom DLL loader that allows loading of dependencies from the local directory. That should remain stable for the rest of calibre's lifetime, unless a future version of Windows breaks it.