[Bug 16246] Setting WINEPATH has no effect.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16246

--- Comment #5 from Aziz Köksal   2008-11-28 18:25:47 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> If you don't want to set it globally then instead of launching whatever program
> you are running under Wine directly, modify the PATH environment variable as
> part of a batch file which then runs your program.

That would be a workaround, but still not something that just feels right. It
has to be the most optimal solution, documented and easy to understand for
users and programmers. I can only see WINEPATH being that.
Keep in mind that on a Windows command line you can just do "set
PATH="%PATH%;C:\new_path" and then launch your program. Also, if you have a
Python script on Windows, you can just modify os.environ['PATH'] before calling
an external program to achieve the same effect. I want to be able to do the
same thing on Linux, by modifying os.environ['WINEPATH'].

In the meantime, I will have to use the batch file workaround.