Provide portable Windows release archive

[kidkat]

Currently we only provide an installer for Windows. It would be helpful if we could provide an archive with the contents as well.

In my case when a new version comes out I have to install it and then copy the files over manually and then uninstall it again.

To work properly this requires a patch from Joachim Reichel which prefers the local cfg etc. folder over the compiled-in one.

We should probably generate this in every CI build to ease testing for external users.

[Daniel Marjamäki]

imho we already provide this. download the "deploy" artifact from the "release-windows" github action.

[Daniel Marjamäki]

We should probably generate this in every CI build to ease testing for external users.

well.. that means there will be ~100 MB extra of artifacts for every CI build. It sounds excessive to me.

[kidkat]

This would also make it easier for someone to grab an older version for testing or reverting to a previous one because of issues without uninstall/install/uninstall loops.

well.. that means there will be ~100 MB extra of artifacts for every CI build. It sounds excessive to me.

We should also add it to the downloadable artifacts on the release page.

well.. that means there will be ~100 MB extra of artifacts for every CI build. It sounds excessive to me.

We should only store the artifacts for main builds and not every PR. The cache has a maximum and the oldest builds will be dropped.

[kidkat]

The loading order fix for cfg has been published: ​https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/pull/4424.

[kidkat]

I started a preliminary portable package with ​https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/pull/4669.

[kidkat]

After merging the linked PR the portable package contains most (actually even more) files the installer does.

[kidkat]

Related: #9643

[kidkat]

Related/prerequisite: #12810.