[Mono-list] Windows installer - Take 3, a.k.a. "this should work for everyone"

[Gert Driesen]

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From: "Gonzalo Paniagua Javier" <gonzalo@ximian.com>
To: "Monkey Business" <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 11:35 PM
Subject: [Mono-list] Windows installer - Take 3, a.k.a. "this should work
for everyone"


> Remember that the .bat wrappers are created in the windows directory
> (c:\windows, c:\winnt or whatever) and that implies that if you want to
> work with MS tools with the same name, you have to set the PATH properly
> (ie., prepending MS path to the tools to the default PATH, which is what
> sane sdkvars.bat files should do).

I think it would be best to store these batch files in <installdir>\bin
instead of <windir>, and have an option during install to have the
<installdir>\bin directory added to the PATH.

Gert