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| author |  Hans_Ryding <Hans_Ryding@web> | 2014-08-25 16:16:34 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-08-25 16:16:34 +0000 |
| commit | 716b15fe4df710f3c1e55bff9f951b45aba59b47 (patch) | |
| tree | ba5f8c19df1ec75367d8fd7b2b1f315c84dd6d92 | |
| parent | a0fbd78a1ce6b25d215db313dda050b61243c6e6 (diff) | |
Added a comment: Relying on path is not best practice in a Windows environment
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Windows_build_has_hardcoded_paths/comment_5_0d7a4f740180dff7c0853062e4913804._comment b/doc/bugs/Windows_build_has_hardcoded_paths/comment_5_0d7a4f740180dff7c0853062e4913804._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..42537f9f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Windows_build_has_hardcoded_paths/comment_5_0d7a4f740180dff7c0853062e4913804._comment @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="Hans_Ryding" + ip="81.229.194.7" + subject="Relying on path is not best practice in a Windows environment" + date="2014-08-25T16:16:33Z" + content=""" +Unlike under POSIX environments +generally applications under windows don't add themselves to path, +or to a directory already in path. + +Generally applications announce their location using the registry. +Under either HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE, +or in case of software installed for one particular user only +under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE. + +Git however AFAIK does not. +Most likely the best thing to do is to prompt the user when installing git-annex +where git is, and store this variable. + +Note that in both my installs I installed git-annex into the git directory, +and the git-annex webapp still couldn't find it. +"""]] |