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Drop support for portable Windows binary #1065
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I think this isn't a problem because the portable executable was a compressed unpacker with both x86 and x64 7zip archives. Each time the binary is executed the archive is unpacked into temporary directory and Mark Text is executed and deleted when all windows are closed. If you launch the "new" setup without admin privileges you can choose to install per-user (non admin) or machine wide (admin privileges needed). The only difference is that the setup registers file extensions, all is done without admin privileges if you install per-user. |
@fxha That seems fine. To confirm I can install marktext to a flash drive and have all the config stored on the flash drive itself? |
I think so that you can install it on a flash drive. One big problem with the standalone Windows binary was that the configuration was always saved in the user data directory and we were unable to change it. As of upcoming v0.15.0, you can create a |
Amazing thank you for your consideration 🙏 |
* Dropped support for portable Windows binary * Update documentation
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Removed the portable Windows package because of bad startup-time and other issues. The package was just added because we needed a non-admin package on Windows. Replaced by default setup that supports per-user installations too.