make the emzed2_setup.exe portable

[gmat]

Hi,
could you please make the installer .exe portable ?
It just embedded one .bat file...
This would make this program not admin needed.
I've tested it with the portable winpython you've suggest and MS VC++ http://aka.ms/vcpython27 and your .bat file modified.
Thks,

[uweschmitt]

What do you mean with "portable"?

[gmat]

portable is maybe not the good term in this case.

Your program could be portable as mzmine. It means you put the folder and launch the .exe every where you want.

But in your case, with an installer, you really should remove the need for privilege escalation. There's 2 known examples python and R installation on windows.

For Python (anaconda or python.org), the installer start and first question, "is it just for you or all users ?". First choice == no privilege escalation and suggest an install path in your homedir (first known write dir of this user).

With R, the installer start by a privilege escalation windows as your but if you reply cancel it's continue overall and as python, suggest you a install path in the homedir.

[uweschmitt]

I just discovered that the website says you should run the installer with adminstrator privileges. But this is actually not required. I just checked it on a recent Windows machine.

Did you try to install as regular user?

[gmat]

oh ! don't know that.
Yes as regular user on windows 10, the installer ask for privilege escalation first no choice if don't enter a administrators users group, it loops. And for cancel, it's stop.
So maybe it's a issue not a request feature. Sorry.

[uweschmitt]

I also was not aware that the website is wrong about that!

We are currently working on emzed 3, but due to resource limitations development is slow. After that installation etc will be much easier. Plan is to release next summer.

[gmat]

ok thks for the date.
Is there a development goal for the version 3 ? Python 3 I suppose. Will it be "just" a update to make it run on python 3 or will it be based on new concept ? An core spyder independent would be cool.

[uweschmitt]

Yes, Python 3, upgrade of PyQt and other libraries, upgrade of spyder.

Separation into three layers: emzed.lib without any GUI so one can run emzed workflows on HPC, emzed gui for the inspection tools and emzed.spyder for those who want spyder integration.

We also want to improve installation using "pip" and support for Linux and Mac.

Beyond that refactoring and cleanup of API, make API PEP8 compliant and also more memory efficient data structures.

We also plan to integrate some algorithms from mzmine2 as some users reported that peak picking and other functions from mzmine work quite well. This would then be an extension as it requires java to be installed.

So: big plans, but also lots of work ;)