http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16246
Aziz Köksal aziz.koeksal@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CLOSED |UNCONFIRMED Resolution|INVALID |
--- Comment #3 from Aziz Köksal aziz.koeksal@gmail.com 2008-11-28 14:56:19 --- (In reply to comment #1)
WINEPATH is not used anywhere within Wine. Where did you found that Wine uses WINEPATH.
If you want to alter PATH withing Wine you will have to do it the same way as windows - via registry.
Closing invalid
Yes it is, at least it was in older versions of wine. For example, see http://source.winehq.org/search?v=wine20040309;string=WINEPATH
I don't appreciate it at all that this bug has been marked invalid almost instantly. I would like to have a discussion, because I think this is a necessary feature. The alternative way to set PATH using regedit is not acceptable in all situations. Especially not when you have to run Windows programs from bash or python scripts and don't want to alter the PATH variable permanently. Consider what you have to do in a script: currently you have to create a temporary registry file, then call wine regedit.exe on it (which can't even read reg files from stdin), but then you have a problem because you can't restore the original PATH variable anymore. There is probably a solution to this, but I'm sure it's definately not as easy as just setting WINEPATH and let wine handle this.
To my mind having support for WINEPATH would be a very welcome feature. It's strange that it somehow disappeared in the newer versions. Can we have it back, please?