On 2022-02-11 3:29 p.m., Howard Butler wrote:
On Feb 11, 2022, at 1:25 PM, Jeff McKenna
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Thanks for this discussion Paul, I can also add into the chaos that
Windows Server x64 has known issues with reading environment variables
What does this mean, specifically? Much of GDAL's behavior is controlled
with environment variables.
Has Windows changed policies on how environment variables are expressed,
consumed, and provided to processes? Is that simply just the case for
running in an HTTP server like IIS?
Howard
It's a frustrating situation, where users report that Windows Server x64
cannot find cacert (and other) environment variables, through both IIS
and Apache. This is years old, terribly difficult to reproduce, but I
did once reproduce on an AWS server. At the time I was only focused on
the HTTP server side of things, so I cannot say here confidently how
commandline processes are affected.
Unfortunately this issue comes up very often, as you said, so much of
our stack relies heavily on environment variables. My hope is that in
the long run, the ini-style of settings can help battle this Windows
Server x64 issue (yes googling this does return many
unproven/non-reproducible reports for other projects, very disheartening).
-jeff
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