Got An App? Make It A PortableApp

Readers of this blog know I’m a fan of the PortableApps.com suite of open source programs. Now, its curators have made it that much easier to take your app–freeware or open source–and make it a PortableApp.

The way they’ve done this is via the 1.0 release of the PortableApps.com Installer, a tool for packaging a properly-formatted application into the one-click NSIS package used by the PA suite. The app in question needs to be prepared along certain guidelines to be used, but once that’s done the rest is a snap. All aspects of the process–the installer, the app guidelines–are open for inspection and cost nothing to get rolling…

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