Are there any plans for a portable (flash drive) version of Bazaar?

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RichardJFoster wrote:
> New question #91004 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/91004
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> I have a flash-drive which I use to transport some personal project source code so I can make modifications to those utilities at any time.
>
> Currently, I am using git (which is quite happy operating as "portable" software like that distributed by PortableApps.com), but I am unhappy about the way it handles rename operations.
>
> Bazaar, as far as I can tell, would need to be installed on every machine where I want to run it. Are there any plans to make a portable version (I understand that some parts of a standard installation - e.g like TortoiseBzr - would not be available)? Are there any settings which can be made in the current version to make it portable (i.e all files written on the flash drive, no settings stored in user's registry)?
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>

I'm pretty sure that if you installed the "setup.exe" installer to a
flash drive, that you should be able to just run it from there. I
haven't tried, but we generally don't depend on things being "installed".

(I always run bzr directly from the source tree anyway...)

Have you tried it, and found that it didn't work?

John
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I haven't tried it (in portable mode) yet, mostly because the comment about the plugins needing to be in the "Application Data/bazaar/2.0/plugins" folder (yes, sadly I'm working in Windows). Comments like that are typically a give-away that applications are using the standard Windows folders and to not offer a way to change it.

Since I don't *need* any of the plugins (although some like automirror would be nice), I'll give it a try as-is and report back.

Thanks for the information.

Regards,
Richard

Hi,

I tried the following:
install Bazaar on a Windows machine, copy the whole installation directory to a USB stick and then uninstall Bazaar again.

Well, you CAN run bzr with this configuration. Plugins are loaded from the correct directory on the USB stick.

BUT: Configuration is stored locally on the machine you are running it from in %AppData%\bazaar. So you can't just carry your portable bazaar around with you :-(

Regards,
Dirk

dirk, I think if you set BZR_HOME to point to a directory on the stick, it will work ok. If not, please file a bug.

Is there any standard Windows convention we should be following that would automatically put the configuration onto the stick?

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Dirk Räder wrote:
> Question #91004 on Bazaar changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/91004
>
> Dirk Räder posted a new comment:
> Hi,
>
> I tried the following:
> install Bazaar on a Windows machine, copy the whole installation directory to a USB stick and then uninstall Bazaar again.
>
> Well, you CAN run bzr with this configuration. Plugins are loaded from
> the correct directory on the USB stick.
>
> BUT: Configuration is stored locally on the machine you are running it
> from in %AppData%\bazaar. So you can't just carry your portable bazaar
> around with you :-(
>
> Regards,
> Dirk
>

You can set the environment variable "BZR_HOME" if you want it to point
outside of %AppData%.

John
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Nice comprehensive solution. Thanks for posting it. (FWIW, I had already switched to Fossil instead of Bazaar - see http://fossil-scm.org - as it more closely matched with what I wanted / needed.)