Shoes overwrites the Windows environment variable

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Shoes overwrites the Windows environment variable #1575

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Just a neat little heads-up for anyone stumbling over this:

The default Shoes installer on Windows OVERWRITES the environment path variable on Windows instead of APPENDING to it.

10/10 experience, can recommend.

lulcat commented 5 years ago

It's windows.. who the hell would care?

PragTob commented 5 years ago

@graves I think you're looking for shoes3 not shoes 4 we don't do anything of the like.

@lulcat people use windows, it's a legit thing. As a maintainer I care.

ccoupe commented 5 years ago

There is a bug in older Shoes 3 where it fails to append to PATH because PATH is too long. There is no real fix for that Installer problem but newer Shoes 3 detects that it's likely to happen and won't install.