[Bug 16246] Setting WINEPATH has no effect.

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


Aziz Köksal <aziz.koeksal at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|CLOSED                      |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |




--- Comment #3 from Aziz Köksal <aziz.koeksal at 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?


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