Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | path_prefix is essentially a Windows thing. Windows has a PATH environment
| > | variable but most native Windows apps don't use it; they use the registry
| > | instead. LyX, however, knows nothing about the registry, so we givea
| > | our users localized way of teaching LyX about installed tools without
| > | hacking the global environment.
| > | Makes sense?
|
| > Barely.
|
| So what would you like to see in an ideal world? Seriously, I'm curious.
Not adding our own "path search" mechanism, but use the system for
that. If the system not setup to give access to the correct progs, use
absolute paths for those.
(If we distrubuted our own 'bin' dir then, OTOH, I'd think it ok to
modify the environment from inside lyx to include that as well.)
I might be naive, but I think we should play as little as possible
with the environment the system provides us.
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Lgb
