[Old Thread] Calibre Portable for PortableApps.com

[DoctorOhh]

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

Excellent, if he has to this level it should no longer be in beta. Time to prod prapper to have calibre moved into the main portableapps.com stream.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

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.

Thanks for that. I used the batch file before but that still required admin access, I believe (to set environment variables). All I know is the latest versions works, and it works very nicely indeed. Kudos for all your hard work!

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Excellent, if he has to this level it should no longer be in beta. Time to prod prapper to have calibre moved into the main portableapps.com stream.

I'm not sure if it's going to be that easy. While prapper's installer/wrapper appears to be very stable, PortableApps.com seems to have strict rules when it comes to version numbers (has to be the same as base app, I think). I'm not sure if they're going to allow the current system wherein the installer just downloads the latest version from calibre's website. For one thing, with the current system, you won't be able to update calibrePortable through the PAc Launcher as it can't detect whether there's a new version of calibre or not.