Should I make a new portable version of Electrum? - page 2.

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Quote from: manicminer on January 17, 2013, 02:37:03 AM

@flatfly

Are you the developer of Electrum?

I'm new, I don't know much about how it works yet but as of 2013 I only use portable software. I think that's understandable.

So, my question is, why create nonportable software in 2013 in the first place? Shouldn't all software be portable nowadays?

I recommend you to team up with the guys at PortableApps.com, they have an awesome auto-updating format and release the software in that format. If you decide to do so.

Thanks for your work!

No I'm not the developer of Electrum, but I used to provide portable builds for windows for a long while, because there were no official builds. Now that official builds are available from electrum.org, I have stopped publishing my own builds.

And yes I'd love to see Electrum being added to portableapps.com as well

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Don't do it.
It isn't safer to have an auto-updating feature on Bitcoin clients.

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@flatfly

Are you the developer of Electrum?

I'm new, I don't know much about how it works yet but as of 2013 I only use portable software. I think that's understandable.

So, my question is, why create nonportable software in 2013 in the first place? Shouldn't all software be portable nowadays?

I recommend you to team up with the guys at PortableApps.com, they have an awesome auto-updating format and release the software in that format. If you decide to do so.

Thanks for your work!

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Of course software has to be portable. A wallet of course too. Its stupid to let your money store at a place windows wants it at.

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Quote from: Largo on December 12, 2012, 07:27:44 PM

Not using Electrum, otherwise i would donate.
But i think any bitcoin client should be portable anyway.
Would make it much easier to store them on a USB stick.
I always look for portable versions of software, because i often change my windows and with portable apps it safes alot of time.

just start bitcoind/bitcoin-qt with datadir argument.

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Not using Electrum, otherwise i would donate.
But i think any bitcoin client should be portable anyway.
Would make it much easier to store them on a USB stick.
I always look for portable versions of software, because i often change my windows and with portable apps it safes alot of time.

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What about agreement with ThomasV to enable automation of build process?

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As you may know, I used to offer high-quality, fully portable versions of Electrum for all modern Windows platforms, which left absolutely no traces on the hard disk and were working pretty well, according to user feedback.

However I've had to stop making them as I recently got a new full-time job, and the testing and build process for portable Electrum was becoming more and more time-consuming, and lately, the number and type of data and config files Electrum uses has changed, which creates new challenges in making a fully portable edition.

So, Windows users, let me know if you are interested in such portable builds. I will use this thread to measure up the demand. If there more than 30 users replying to this post, OR more than 30 BTC is pledged, it will certainly convince me to work on offering portable builds to all users again.

The donation address is: 1337sfeChyyzZLzdHLewXzcaAaJSNTM893

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