[vlc-devel] [PATCH] portable windows build

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 08 Mar, Hannes Domani wrote :
> Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> schrieb am 15:39 Sonntag, 8.März 2015:
> > On 08 Mar, Hannes Domani wrote :
> > > Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> schrieb am 15:15 Sonntag, 8.März 2015:
> > > > On 08 Mar, Hannes Domani wrote :
> > > > > This simply checks if there is a "portable" folder where vlc.exe is, and uses it instead of the user AppData directory.
> > > >
> > > > Is this detection method the best idea?
> > >
> > > The other methods I can think of are an environment variable, or a command line parameter.
> > 
> > vlc-portable.exe ?
> > 
> > Or a .portable.txt file?
> 
> So the detection method should then take care of creating the folder if it doesn't exist yet?

That's an idea.

I'm just asking, though, since there is no standard or consensus

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