[Merkaartor] Making Merkaartor "Portable"

[Chris Browet]

Merkaartor is not designed (so far) to be a "portable" application but it
would actually be very easy to implement.
With Qt magic, I could make it portable, by instance, by adding a specific
"-portable" command-line option.

By default, where the settings are saved is platform-depended (and indeed
the registry on windows) but that can be overridden by forcing the format
(e.g. ini file) and the locations (e.g. the application directory).

Could you open a ticket with this suggestion, please. That could be
implemented in a 0.16.1.

- Chris -

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 19:56, Eric Wolf <ebwolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm need to run Merkaartor on Windows without admin access and without
> actually installing it. I also want to package it with a custom
> configuration for the default OSM server, WMS server, styles, etc.
>
> Just playing around, I've found that I can copy the Merkaartor application
> directory from a system that it was properly installed on to a USB stick. I
> can run this copy on a machine that Merkaartor hasn't been installed on.
> However, all of the configuration settings are written to the Registry. It
> would be much better if a config file were used instead. I assume the Linux
> version uses a config file.
>
> Has anyone tried to get Merkaartor running as a "portable" application?
>
> -Eric
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