[sylpheed:31255] Re: Ack? What's this?

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:18:00 -0400
Jeffrey Needle <jeff.needle at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed the 2.40a version over 2.3 on my WinXP system.  All went
> well, but the installer notified me that data in the Documents and
> Settings area was not changed.
> 
> Ack!  I thought Sylpheed was portable.  I thought that copying the
> Sylpheed directory to a USB stick was all that was needed.  Is there
> more I need to be doing to make the system portable?  My experience
> has been that portable apps don't store anything outside the
> application folder itself.

Sylpheed provides "--configdir <dirname>" command-line option. You can
use this to make Sylpheed (more-or-less) portable.

At the next version, Sylpheed will read "sylpheed.ini" file at the same
location of sylpheed.exe. This will make Sylpheed completely portable.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>