Hi all,

First, I recently discovered 'Portable Apps' 
(www.portableapps.com) and was surprised to see some large 
programs (Open Office) are available in that format.  I wondered 
if a) csound can be run from a thumb drive like a portable app, 
and b) if not, has anyone considered trying to package it as 
one?  And how about front ends?

Second, since gvim IS available as a portable app, and I recall 
sometime ago that someone posted info about adding csound 
highlighting, etc. capabilities to it, would they be so kind as 
to re post the info so I can use it?

Thanks,
Bob Foose


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> First, I recently discovered 'Portable Apps'
> (www.portableapps.com) and was surprised to see some large
> programs (Open Office) are available in that format.  I wondered
> if a) csound can be run from a thumb drive like a portable app,
> and b) if not, has anyone considered trying to package it as
> one?  And how about front ends?

Yes, it works fine: my own front end Surmulot includes csound, emacs, 
squeak, timidity within a plain folder that can be located anywhere, 
including a USB key. You can have multiple versions without conflict. 
That's how I like software.

It's actually rather easy to do; the system just have to define and 
refer to its own versions of the required environment variables. Which 
is why I do not like environment variables :)


Stef


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Excellent!! Thank you Stephane.  As for Surmolot, I recently 
downloaded it (about a week ago), and find it very interesting, 
at least in the limited overview I've had so far.  I suppose I 
should dvote some time to exploring emacs, now, too.
Bob

On 13:59, Stéphane Rollandin wrote:
>> First, I recently discovered 'Portable Apps'
>> (www.portableapps.com) and was surprised to see some large
>> programs (Open Office) are available in that format. I wondered
>> if a) csound can be run from a thumb drive like a portable app,
>> and b) if not, has anyone considered trying to package it as
>> one? And how about front ends?
>
> Yes, it works fine: my own front end Surmulot includes csound,
> emacs, squeak, timidity within a plain folder that can be
> located anywhere, including a USB key. You can have multiple
> versions without conflict. That's how I like software.
>
> It's actually rather easy to do; the system just have to define
> and refer to its own versions of the required environment
> variables. Which is why I do not like environment variables :)
>
>
> Stef
>


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 > As for Surmolot, I recently
> downloaded it (about a week ago), and find it very interesting,
> at least in the limited overview I've had so far.

Don't hesitate to complain about missing/badly written documentation if 
you feel stuck somewhere ! Documentation is the hardest thing to provide 
correctly, which make user feedback priceless.

A new pre-release of Surmulot is on its way BTW (possibly this week).

Best,

Stef



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