Re: Zip version of Workbench 6.3.9

On 3/22/2017 5:44 AM, djburbridge_at_gmail.com wrote:
> By "portable" I meant the commonly accepted definition of "I can unzip it to somewhere on my hard drive or a USB stick and it works with no other installation and minimal setup (basically just entering the connection details), without it trying to write to the registry".
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> This was possible with previous versions of Workbench - I was wondering why the developers had decided that they just *had* to be able to write to the registry?
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> For anyone who's also wondering, https://www.heidisql.com/ looks like a reasonable alternative, which works exactly as I've described.
>

Who knows - maybe it has something to do with tracking versions, file locations or lots of other things. Most programs use the registry in some form or another. Even MySQL itself does. I see no problem with the workbench using it.

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