Portable App GitHub Repo Template #3

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Numstr/Obsidian-Portable#3
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to make any portableapps' app self-updatable by myself?

Not any app. To update yourself, you need to change the BAT file, but you need to know what exactly needs to be changed. It will be useful to know a little CMD.

Okay, I'll search all the commands in the Update.bat file, and learn it.

Chrome is probably not ever going to be fixed, because of Chromium encryption limitation.

In the latest builds of Chromium, they fixed the cookie encryption (add --disable-encryption to the arguments). Ungoogled Chromium from my repo is now fully portable (need fresh profile). Dont know about Google Chrome and other chromium based browsers.

does it contain all the history, no history will be gone? how about password? and does it support sync with chrome in mobile. or it only supports sync with mobile ungoogled chromium fork?

this is the only portableapps obsidian portable that self-update

Obsidain has a built-in self-updating mechanism, so no.

I thought, it's a dangerous thing to do that with portableApps (from reading Firefox support page in PA website);
Is it safe to do it with portable obsidian from PortableApps template?

why not post this as official app in portableApps? If you're busy, could I fork this and post this to PortableApps?

Do as you wish, the repo is open. But this makes no sense, you can find packages of obsidian dev-test on the forum. The difference is small except for the presence of a BAT file. But if you talk about including it in the official portable app platform, they don't accept it because there are extra utils and BAT file present.

Makes sense, the updating part is very different from PA version that needs maintainer, tho PR to the maintainer's GitHub would solved it; and if they go offline. A fork is doable, IG.

Also where can I read more on the list of commandline parameters (I mean) AdditionalParameters for ObsidianPortable? (Tho, I want to know that CLI parameters too)

This parametrs are application specific. Obsidian use Electron so check parametrs for electron apps. Some work, some don't.

Okay, thanks for the answer. I'll look into electron parameters.

I don't really like answering questions and making guides. If you want a specific app, tell me what app is, I check it and maybe make a repo like that.

Okay, This is awesome. I'll make a list later. If it's not possible don't push it for now. But if it's possible thanks, self-updating portable apps are awesome.
Great addition besides winget, chocolatey, scoop (mostly portable but i cant get it to work in my machine), msys2 for installed apps.

I'm gonna list some on my devices, just cross the items if it's actively maintained in PA website (I havent checked them all yet). this is gonna be a drafts
(wait, on second thought. I'll open new issue for this. since this issue question is answered). uhm, your main page Numstr/Numstr doesn't have discussion turned on.
So should I post my apps list here or open a new issue (I think, I'll post it here anyway, since you want suggestions instead of questions, making an apps requests in this repo for obsidian also makes no sense. so here it goes.)?

Again thank you so much. This portable apps really save my cellular data, all the self-updating installed apps are not mobile data friendly (e.g., most installed browsers are self-updating).

edit: if the remaining questions in this reply are a hassle to answer. just close this issue. I got Obsidian solved, at the very least.

continuation:
so here it goes. I'll start from critical category to unsorted ones.

Portable Apps repos suggestion: all the portable Apps that I suggest to be made a repo and a Portable version, has the minimum use case of self-updating, just like Obsidian Portable by you.
(no need for Portable Apps constraint if its impossible like busbybox and 7za.exe of Obsidian Portable Updater.bat way to self-update an app)

(any links to the commands use in Updater.bat are also helpful, so I could start learning it, and maybe making a PR, if it's not too advance
[I get most CLI lines in package managers as and end user, and experimental settings too in winget, with MS docs help]):

1. Syncthing
2. KeePassXC
3. Obsidian, done.
4. Ente Auth
5. I think no Aegis in desktop? (Ente Auth is great. there is a bug currently but there's a workaround. my 2nd 2FA app besides KeePassXC)
6. LinkedIn
7. WhatsApp
8. Telegram
   (haven't used but interested)
9. VeraCypt (since this requires admin right, probably like how AV works. is it possible to be portable?).
10. Kaspersky free is also not possible like veracrypt rite? (tho this one is optional since, it only needs 1 month wait time to get the free version from standard install)
11. MalwareBytes
12. Most AVs recommendations in r/antivirus wiki page
13. ShareX
14. I haven't research on this, but Revanced YT patch in desktop is only to patch RV YT and then put it in android rite? (if this is not possible like SyncYomi with TachiYomi/Mihon, then stratch it)
15. FrontEnds of social media suggestions in privacyguides.org and privacytools.io
16. since Matrix, XMPP, and federated networks are protocols, do you have favorites for each protocols' frontends? (If the mobile apps don't have ports in PC. then skip it, I'll just use android emulators then. unless syncyomi is possible for other apps. the critical one would be Obtainium [maybe wget download URL, then install command?])
17. Revo Uninstaller
18. Rclone (to pair with RCX, Rclone of android).
19. FFMPEG git full version. Like I said scoop doesn't work on my machine so I can't get this via scoop.
20. is there a possibility of making a port of Obtainium for desktop?
    (or basically all these repos of yours inside a GUI package manager. or in the style of PA platform
    [if this is too advance, forget this, just let this be as a note for other devs. updater.bat for all my apps are awesome.])

Not sure if all apps could be downloaded and extracted using this method, and maybe help.html file for the manual option, e.g., manually updating Obsidian by extracting it to ObsidianData just like how .PAF file works, but manual guide.

(just to clarify, Obtainium is like an app/apk installer with the apps as list inside one app, so app installer manager? but anyway, it works very differently then, say, UniGetUI. It's more akin to using wget github in Linux [or msys2].)
18. UniGetUI (CLI tab like in YTDLnis or more like portable winget in UniGetUI. Reason is: I don't know why I have some winget problem in some of my devices;
If I reinstall it, I'm afraid, I'll broke it with the command: 'winget source update' not working).
19. On that note:YTDLP (currently using YTDLnis until I get the hang of its CLI output in logs [also had tried Seal in android, it's anothe GUI fork of YTDLP])
20. Zoom (if any proprietary apps are a hassle and an illegal thing to do in practice then, stratch this, e.g., Edge Portable. Although technically, it exists in PA forum threads)
21. Google Meet (is this better to just use it as web or PWA instead?).
22. Deepl
23. your sesion portable is stable, rite?
24. Skype
25. Facebook (If social media apps are a hassle. then just skip this suggestions)
26. Instagram
27. Line
28. X (formerly Twitter)
29. Messenger I think already could be opened in web so thats fine ig.
30. i think theres no Quora desktop, rite?
31. I'm still afraid of losing data when I use Chrome or your suggestion: ungoogled chromium. there's also brave portable by Portapps with the same problem.
Are they stable releases?
or they're not stable yet, just like Java usage (I think plugin or something) in PortableApps, tho Java portable work with renaming the 'java64' to just 'java' folder for DocFetcher to work.
32. 3C-All-in-One-Toolbox companion app for the mobile version.
33. VSCodium (I had to uninstall this from my chocolatey apps list, it's gone from choco or cached for FOSS user [the con of chocolatey as opposed to winget. idk how to check chocolatey choco install apps download URLs, but i could check all of this in winget-pkgs repo so winget wins here])
34. portable ADB for well ADB command, mainly for shizuku, AppManager by MuntashirAkon, Hail, etc.
35. Portable Discord (since IDK how much each DC update costs me in MegaBytes)
36. I just found TunnlTo/desktop-app after searching WG tunnel and wireguard. not sure if there's a cross platform version of this like syncyomi. (or should I just export import between these clients with syncthing syncing the wireguard.conf files)
37. VLC
38. Foobar
39. SyncYomi

Done for now.
[WIP] (I'll make the drafts first in my obsidian app, and paste it here later. making drafts in GitHub web is dangerous [not sure if theres cloud draft here?])

For UniGetUI, I'll try to ask the devs or maintainers to add CLI support using the portable winget inside UniGetUI own app.

Like I said, just do the ones that is most plausible for you to do incrementally. Don't take this as forcing it to you. I will just use installed mode for at least most of my critical apps. Thank you so much again for the suggestion. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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