The resulting zip archive could be distributed not only via a real USB stick,
but via the Internet,
Dropbox, Mail-Attachment ;) etc.
Maybe this should not be dubbed "USB stick version" but simply "zip version"
(which would also imply
that it is a "portable app" in the sense you pointed at).
The
On Sun, 10 Oct 2021, at 16:29, CVBruce wrote:
> Since we are only talking Windows, there are several different ways of
> getting apps on a thumb drive that makes it easy to use them. This
> article explains what a portable app is and why they are a good idea.
> https://www.howtogeek.com/290358
In some companies, the security on company computers is such that reading,
writing, and executing or even mounting usb drives is blocked. Have your
former students tried to execute programs from USB drives?
Also, there are several different environments for deploying “portable apps”.
Since we
I agree with all that Jeremy says.
Jon
On Sun, 10 Oct 2021 at 15:41, Jeremy Nicoll
wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, at 14:01, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
>
> > The stick versions should be zip archives that users can unzip
> > change into the bin-directory and run that version of ooRexx
> > off that d
On Sat, 9 Oct 2021, at 14:01, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> The stick versions should be zip archives that users can unzip
> change into the bin-directory and run that version of ooRexx
> off that directory without the need of an installation.
I like that idea a lot.
Perhaps it would also allow
