Add portable version of nteract

[ghost]

As mentioned in #1873 I would like to run nteract in an environment(aka my high-school network) in which I have very few permissions.

I would like to run nteract in a portable way as I can with Atom. For this I need to store all programs and configurations files for nteract and kernels in selected path.

The zip version allow this, the problem is that running nteract some folders are created, and I'd like to choose the place to put them or eventually with a cli-flag --portable, nteract would store them in the same folder as the executable. Any thougths.

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[rgbkrk]

Yeah this would be really nice. I'd love for us to support portable versions, especially for use in schools.

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[rgbkrk]

What are all the steps we need to take for this @benjaminabel?

[ghost]

I don't really know all the settings that need nteract to work, but to make nteract portable it would require to say to the program to search for all settings in a specific folder, for example, visual-studio-code use data folder see doc.

This is only allowed in zip download, you add a data dir in the same folder and put your settings there.

In my linux machine I can find these folders, but maybe nteract uses others:

• $HOME/.config/nteract
• $HOME/.ipython

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This issue hasn't had any activity on it in the last 90 days. Unfortunately we don't get around to dealing with every issue that is opened. Instead of leaving issues open we're seeking to be transparent by closing issues that aren't being prioritized. If no other activity happens on this issue in one week, it will be closed.
It's more than likely that just by me posting about this, the maintainers will take a closer look at these long forgotten issues to help evaluate what to do next.
If you would like to see this issue get prioritized over others, there are multiple avenues 🗓:

• Ask how you can help with this issue 👩🏿‍💻👨🏻‍💻
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Thank you!