So, this way you could also save some storage space on your local device by delegating some of the apps to the Portable software. This handy little tool could be run on your portable storage devices like Memory cards, External hard drives, USB or on your cloud network like Dropbox and Google Drive or also on your local device. Portable Apps was developed to cater to them modern digital life-on-the-go. Of course, the help-text for the tcl-menu would include some info on tcl, as well as links to all the relevant websites.‘Portable Apps’ is an open-source platform developed to support software that could run without installation on a native device.
Some of the programs that I think should be included: All this could be wrapped into a tclkit or starpack. My idea would be to have a tcl-menu, that gets started from the portableapps-menue, that presents the included tcl-applications (sort of like the tcl-demo).
It would be nice for tcl to be present at PortableApps, to raise awareness for a broader group of people, say with some of the games for a start. Lupo PenSuite or Portable Freeware Collection. There are similar websites for such portable software, e.g. is gaining much popularity, and more apps rapidly. Note that this is true also for 'plain' starkits etc. software that can be copied somewhere, and run from there) from being included in, and distributed with the portableapps-collection. This is sort of an obstacle, because it prevents 'native portable' programs (i.e. There is a specification for the format of the file- and directory-layout, as well as operating behavior of portable apps, and its installer. Side effect: lots of space wasted for duplicates of common files like dlls. Even if a lot of those applications are also available for Linux or Mac, there is no "portable" equivalent yet.Īll those programs put everything necessary for running them into their own directory, so they can be installed and uninstalled independantly at any time. So, "Portable" in the sense that such software can be carried around, plugged into any computer and used there without needing to install it there. there are portable versions of OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Filezilla, GIMP, Pidgin, Virtualdub. HJG : PortableApps is a collection of software that can be installed on an USBstick (see USB Portable Environment ).
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