Windows nightly installer does not update %PATH% #17570
Comments
iliekturtles
added a commit
to iliekturtles/rust
that referenced
this issue
Sep 26, 2014
Modify the system %PATH% environment variable instead of the current user's %PATH% environment. The current user will be an admin user that may not be the same user who originally started the installer. Closes rust-lang#17570.
|
@iliekturtles Thanks! |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
The Rust nightly Windows installer,
rust-nightly-i686-w64-mingw32.exeaddsC:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\binto the current user's path. Because the installer immediately requests to be elevated upon execution this will be an administrator that may not be the original user who ran the installer.Because the installer defaults to
Program Files (x86)I believe that the installer should update the system path as this is generally expected for Windows programs that require an elevated installer. I will submit a patch to make this change shortly.If it is still desired to change the current user's path I suggest making this an option. I did some brief research on how to get the setup application to make changes for the current user, but didn't see any quick fixes.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: