portable development environments

AHarvey · 11 Nov 2008 at 22:58

Hi all,

I was just wondering if it is possible to have portable development environments for all the different languages?

I have WAMP installed on my portable HDD along with Notepad++, I can put this HDD on any PC and it will use them.

I was wondering if it it possible to get the same for Python, Perl, Java etc etc, if so, can anyone point me in the right direction.

Reason is that we are not allowed to install this sort of thing on to our work PC's because, get this, of hackers! :O But we are allowed to run it from our portable HDDs.

EDIT: I've found a portable Python program

Really interested in getting a portable Java IDE.

Bes · 12 Nov 2008 at 16:49

I would boot something like FaunOS off a USB stick and install Apache/ BlueFish/ Eclipse or whatever you want.

Pho · 12 Nov 2008 at 17:08

Eclipse? - http://portableapps.com/

You don't have to install it, just extract it wherever you want so it should work.

edit: beat.

Vai · 12 Nov 2008 at 18:21

At work I have our development environment set up in a virtual machine, if my PC ever needs to be reinstalled I can just install Virtual PC and be working very quickly.

You could do something similar with an external hard drive, although I don't know if any of the virtualisation softwares will run without being installed first (i.e. from a portable disk)