[CLOSED] Portable build

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Issue by pthiess
Friday Sep 12, 2014 at 23:51 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#9088

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As user, I'd like to run Brackets without running an installer and without making any changes to my computer outside the Brackets app folder. I want to place Brackets on a thumb drive and have it work the same on any computer I plug the thumb drive into.

This also provides an escape hatch for non-admin Windows users (but see #1004 for the "real" solution to that).

Criteria

• Preferences/cache stored in app folder, not global user folder
• Shell settings (e.g. window size) stores in app folder, not global user registry keys
• Look for extensions in app folder. Don't look in global user folder.
• Installing extensions places them in app folder, not global user folder.
• Disable all Brackets UI related to file associations.
• Any registry keys brackets-shell sets automatically on startup (e.g. ProgID) shouldn't be touched in portable version.

adobe/brackets-shell#333

• [ ]@JeffryBooher Review Code
• [ ]@JeffryBooher Test MAC
• [ ]@JeffryBooher Test Windows
• Add to build
• Host on brackets.io