>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Angus> These patches add new functions setEnvPath and
Angus> os::path_separator and uses setEnvPath to add the directory
Angus> containing the LyX executable to the PATH on MacOSX and on
Angus> Windows.

Thanks.

A question: shouldn't we do this directly in the Package constructor?
This is the kind of thing we want to hide from the main code, I think.

Angus> The 14x patch also resurrects PutEnv that was removed 22 months
Angus> ago by André. Looking at it, I have a question: if ::putenv is
Angus> so evil (and I see that it is) why do we use it in preference
Angus> to ::setenv? 

Maybe because putenv is posix, and setenv is not?

JMarc

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