Shoes installer overwrites PATH in Windows

[Chia-KY]

shoes-3.2.18-gtk2-32.exe installation in Windows 8.1 x64 overwrites environment PATH with ONLY shoes directory. All previous paths are overwritten.

[ccoupe]

I'm sorry to hear that. I un-install/install shoes two or three times a week on Win7 and haven't seen this problem. I know it was tested by others on 8.1. Do you have other applications that set the path? Perhaps shoes is conflicting with them?

[IanTrudel]

Known issue with the version of NSIS used. Read Where's the large string version of the Unicode NSIS? http://www.scratchpaper.com/home/faq

Solution: either use Unicode NSIS or rebuild NSIS with large strings as per the instructions here — http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Special_Builds

[ccoupe]

I've fixed this (NSIS now has longer strings) and tested it, @Chia-KY There's a beta build of Shoes 3.2.19 that has this fix at http://walkabout.mvmanila.com/public/shoes/shoes-3.2.19-gtk2-32.exe
Please don't use the Advanced Packaging in the beta.

[IanTrudel]

TESTING SCENARIO

• Save %PATH% either from command line or in Control Panel;
• Add paths to the %PATH% with the GUI until you reach over 1024 characters;
• Install Shoes with the installer created using your patched NSIS;
• Check %PATH% again, should have kept everything because of the patch;
• Uninstall Shoes, check the %PATH% again.
• Restore %PATH% in GUI from the first step.