Ellié Computing Merge now supports so called "portable
installation". In this sentence portable refers to the
fact of being 'portable in your pocket', e.g. in a
USB drive. Portable installation works on all systems but
is actually easy to handle only on Windows, if
you want portable installation on other OS please read the
full explanation at the bottom of this page.
Ellié Computing Merge supports this through a simple
two-step installation:
Install ECMerge the standard way as explained in the
other entries
Create a directory called
"portable-settings" in the directory that you chose
to install ECMerge.
That's all! From that point, Merge will save all the user
information (settings, workspaces, sessions...) in that
directory.
The normal user licence permits this usage.
More information
On Mac OS X, the directory for ECMerge is located inside
the ecmerge.app application folder, you need to do 'open as
folder' then create the "portable-settings"
folder inside the Contents folder, aside guimerge
executable
On Solaris and Linux, install in the standard place,
create the "portable-settings" directory
as explained above, then move the /opt/elliecomputing/merge
directory were you want. You will have to run the
guimerge-ldlib.sh script to run
ECMerge.
