For that type of software, personally I like the "Visual Studio Tools Command Prompt" pattern. Give a shortcut to a shell with the right environment and if a user decides to incorporate it into his default environment then he can port the settings over. I have no problem clicking the VS version specific icon then typing say ildasm. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me
----- Original Message ---- From: Wilbert van Dolleweerd <wilb...@arentheym.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 7:55:32 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix and "tricky" environment variables 2011/2/10 Christopher Painter <chr...@deploymentengineering.com>: > I'll be honest, it's 2011 and I'm hard pressed to understand why software > applications still cling to the need to be in the "PATH"... a concept that > originated some 30 years earlier. How about software that operates on the commandline? In that case it is not unusual for it to be added to the PATH. Although I consider it an added bonus if the installer nicely asks. Msysgit for example asks nicely if you want it to be added to the PATH. -- Kind regards, Wilbert van Dolleweerd Blog: http://walkingthestack.wordpress.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wvandolleweerd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
