MuseScore 3.5 is not available on the PortableApps.com site & Platform application
Regression: The latest version of MuseScore on PortableApps.com (and in the Platform, their launcher or installer portal) is MuseScore 2.3.2.
Workaround: As of version 3.5, MuseScore is available as a Windows portable application/installer (lower-case intentional, to distinguish it from an "official" PortableApp.com application), available from MuseScore downloads (link text: Portable version).
The effort to create the portable application binary/installer was tracked at #281616: MuseScore 3 is not available as a PortableApp on Windows may have some additional background.
Would it be possible to do the the necessary to have it conform to the PortableApps.com standards so it can be included?
(a) on the PortableApps.com site
(b) in the PortableApps.com launcher
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No need IMHO, as it is available directly from musescore.org's download page
I forgot to add
A previous discussion in 2019 on PortableApps.com to get an updated MuseScore included came to a dead end. Hopefully with a released binary complete the MuseScore team can get further this time.
Another workaround for Windows 10 64-bit: Microsoft Store
Another workaround for Windows would be scoop package manager with the scoop extras bucket
Your preference / opinion noted. I would like to hear from others.
My own scenario: I have been using the PortableApps.com Platform extensively on my locked-down work laptop to install and maintain all my OSS applications, and find it extremely convenient. MuseScore is currently the only app I install/update outside of PortableApps.com .
If the general consensus is that this is a "won't fix" (for whatever reason, or at least for now), we have it on record.
I'm not against it being also distributed via portableapps.com
Not a regression though
I believe it is a regression. The previous latest version that was available via PortableApps.com was 2.3.2.
HOWERVER, looking for this version on the site just now, I just noticed that MuseScore 3.5 is available on the PortableApps.com web site, https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/musescore_portable AND installable via the PortableApps.com platform app. I just installed 3.5 via the platform app. It was added/updated on 2020-09-08.
It is not a regression, as it has never been made available there, not for MuseScore 3 in any case, and not for MuseScore 2 and 1 by the MuseScore team
Having it as part of the MuseScore build process now, is a new feature, as of 3.5(.0), so can't be a regression
Anyway, it is fixed now apparently (even if not by the MuseScore developers)
As I stated originally:
"Regression: The latest version of MuseScore on PortableApps.com (and in the Platform, their launcher or installer portal) is MuseScore 2.3.2."
This old version was maintain by BartS. He took the regular installer and converted it into a portableapp and got it accepted by PortableApps.com for distribution via their site and platform app. Since it was available for 2.3.2, but not 3.x, I would think it is a regression. If that does not make this issue a regression, I don't know what would.
Maybe, but then a 3.0 regression, not a 3.5 one. Which doesn't really make sense, as there were no PortableApps for that, which in itself was a regression though (see #281616: MuseScore 3 is not available as a PortableApp on Windows, indeed marked as a rgression)
Ok, I now understand where the confusion/misunderstanding was.
a) the other issue was for the existence of the binary, which existed since 3.0. Getting the binary was a prerequisite for getting it on the platform (esp if we wanted to avoid the hand-massaging of the installer, which BartS used to do, in favour of an automated way to produce the binary).
b) this issue was for availability on the platform, logged against 3.5 (even though the issue existed since 3.0). I just logged it against 3.5 since the 3.5 binary was out by then, and logging an issues that exited since 3.0 did not make sense to me.