Wishlist: KiCad as portable application in Windows

[Artsiom Shchatsko]

It would be great to have a portable version of KiCad for Windows (e.g. no installation required, save settings to application folder instead of registry or system folders etc).

[Cat C (catalin-cluj)]

I don't think this is a duplicate bug because not all portable "apps" must be so in/with "PortableApps"; they can be standalone.

Furthermore, I may be missing something but I don't see the difficulty: Until recently I could use "kicad-winbuilder" to build what was in essence a portable version.
Since the release (or so it seems) that doesn't work anymore or is much harder/changed.
I think it's important to have"portable" version so I can have the old-stable also installed; I feel safer making small changes to old projects using it (old).

[jean-pierre charras (jp-charras)]

You perfectly can have both the old and new Kicad version.
Just (obviously) have them installed in 2 fully separate folders.

[WacksBaby (haroldking)]

I have packaged KiCad in PortableApps.com format. You can find the details here: http://www.cybercircuits.co.nz/web/KiCadPortable

You can download the PAF files here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kicad4-portable