Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > Am 07.12.2018 um 22:41 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> Greetings, Thomas Wolff! >> >>> Am 06.12.2018 um 22:32 schrieb Andrey Repin: >>>> Greetings, Achim Gratz! >>>> >>>>> a) Just warn about the missing PATH component without changing the PATH. >>>>> b) Give the user an option to let the command run with a separate PATH. >>>>> Indeed there might be other things that are missing in the environment, >>>>> so instead of just fixing up PATH you might consider using a wrapper >>>>> that the user can change. >>>> This is an interesting point. >>>> Probably letting the user specify custom $PATH for quick commands (and save >>>> current %PATH% as $ORIGINAL_PATH) may be the best choice. >>>> The default can be %Cygwin%\bin:%PATH% or %PATH%:%Cygwin%\bin, I'm not very >>>> concerned as long as it's explicit and customizable. >>> I didn't expect the setup of this specific feature to be so strongly >>> advocated :) >>> In any case, things shouldn't become too complex. What I can image is an >>> option UserCommandsPATH >>> with one optional placeholder %s which would be replaced with the >>> environment PATH; >>> default /bin:%s, corresponding to current behaviour. >> Using native paths and environment variable syntax, you can always use >> ExpandEnvironmentString to get the %PATH% you need. >> Cygwin DLL will then convert it to own version, avoiding you mangling it >> yourself. >> And I would strongly discourage from using placeholders familiar for you, but >> unexpected by the end user and taken from entirely different area of >> knowledge. >> >> BTW, Cygwin itself does it differently. %Cygwin%\bin is converted to >> /usr/bin. > This setup should be handled in the Posix path domain.
Give me a good reason why should you second-guess Cygwin's own functionality? > I've uploaded a > patch for evaluation, to the github repository. > Thomas -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, December 10, 2018 5:01:12 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
