Portable Sketchup

[cdubea]

Hey all,

I've been running a quasi-portable installation of Sketchup (free) on my thumb drive for a month or so now. It's pretty crude in that it's basically a batch file which writes appropriate values into the registry, runs sketchup, then deletes the registry values on exit. The downside is the file locations are hardcoded so it's definitely not truly portable.

I've looked at the tools to create portable applications on http://www.portableapps.com and it would not be particularly complex to create a Portable Sketchup as Sketchup's registry values are fairly well contained (basically one registry hive). Thus it would be fairly straightforward to create a truly portable instance of Sketchup (if the computer already has dotnet installed, a major caveat and I honestly don't know if this can be tested prior to running).

In reading through the EULA it seems as though Sketchup cannot be re-distributed. It's not clear the impact of creating a framework and set of instructions for a user to create their own portable Sketchup installation. Before I go through the gyration of creating this framework, the question remains. If I created this framework, could I legally distribute it without Sketchup?

Opinions?

chris

[remus]

If the EULA says you cant redistribute it, i wouldnt get your hopes up for publishing it yourself.

Definetly worth gettign in comtct with the SU team to see wether theyd be interested or not, as this could add some major functionality to the program. I suppose the only caveat would be if you wanted to charge or not, which would be pretty reasonable as far as im concerned!

So i reckon, just talk to the SU team and see what they have to sya aobut it, im certainly gunning for you