Thinstall

[mysigninname]

Many years ago I used to create my own portable applications using another portable application called Thinstall. This was in MS Windows. Anyone heard of it? Great concept. You would simply download the apoplication you wanted to make portable, open Thinstall which would take a snapshot of your system, install the application, Thinstall would then take a snapshot post-install and then package your application into a fully portable virtualised package. Virtual meaning it wouldn't affect your system in anyway so long as (similarly to appimages) your created a specific folder alongside the packaged file. An old concept but it was so easy to use, and secure too! A bubblewrapped/firejailed appimage all-in-one. Closest to this would be a flatimage I suppose but these appimages seem so much harder to create, even like I don't know 15 years or so (maybe more) later.

[Samueru-sama]

Hi @mysigninname you might wanna go to the pkgforge discord if you want to talk about these stuff better.

The several .md files in this repo explain how to package them, and we also provide a template repo that is quick to fill out.

[shuvashish76]

For Windows I used to have https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2 just for extract and run. Seems not maintained anymore.