[OTR-users] OTR and portable GAIM

[Scott Fringer]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Scott Fringer wrote:
> 
>> Portable Gaim is designed to run from a USB stick and be totally
>> independent of the host PC (settings and what-not are stored on the
>> stick) so you can take your IM with you.
>>
>> It's been a while since I set mine up, but I am successfully using OTR
>> with Gaim portable.  I think the part I'm remembering is that OTR
>> expects Gaim to be installed on the hard drive, and can't find a
>> portable install - so I had to install to a PC-based Gaim install and
>> then transfer the plugin to my USB stick.
> 
> Hmm, so the installer cannot find the gaim installation on a USB stick,
> because that gaim did not install any references about its location in the
> registry. So the installer will never be able to find it.
> But if it doesn't find it, perhaps I can then prompt it for a custom location
> specified by the user (who presumably knows what he is doing).
> 
> I'll see if NSIS offers such an option,

Certainly sounds like a very good option from my perspective.

Scott