On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 13:39, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Yuki KODAMA <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 13:21, Mark Tolonen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I installed 1.0.1 to Windows XP 32-bit box.
>>>> But the installer appends "C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\" to PATH
>>>> environment variable,
>>>> not "C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg".  As a result, we can't use "hg"
>>>> command via Windows
>>>> command prompt.
>>>
>>> It works either way.  I have Windows XP and the same PATH entry and it
>>> works.
>>>
>>> Windows doesn't care if you put multiple backslashes in a row, e.g., this
>>> works:
>>>
>>> dir "C:\Program Files\\\\\\\TortoiseHg\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"
>>>
>>> (although it *is* picky about only a single one after the colon, at least on
>>> XP)
>>
>> Yeah, you're right, Mark.  Thanks for replying.
>> This is trivial issue, we won't need to ship 1.0.1-1 (installer fix version).
>> But if possible, I hope this issue will be fixed for 1.0.2.
>
> (dropping hg-user mailing list)
>
> Phew.  I was quite curious about this because the PATH mechanism
> hasn't changed since 1.0. The trailing slash is a side-effect of the
> way Windows Installer treats directory variables; it always appends
> the trailing slash for easy concatenation.  I'm not sure if there's an
> easy way to strip it.

Does 1.0 installer append trailing backslash to PATH?
WiX source codes were changed very often, so I couldn't follow all of them.

-- 
Yuki KODAMA

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