Updating Windows PATH
robphoenix opened this issue · 2 comments
Hi, I posted a reply to exercism/exercism#3077 (comment) a while back and @kytrinyx has asked me to move my question here:
I just have a question; Is it supposed to add the exercism.exe to the PATH? It didn't on my machine and so adding C:\Program Files\Exercism to the path would have to be documented also. I don't know any C# but maybe this could become part of the installation in future versions? Adding things to the Windows PATH can often be a cause for mistakes for beginners, and tbh I'm still not immune from messing up my PATH!
Hi,
I think there is a bit of a mix up here. Let me try to clarify.
This repo is for the GUI client, which is in beta right now and not mentioned yet on the exercism site as I still need to write usage documentation (see #48). This GUI does not have an installer yet, it is distributed as a standalone isolated package (but an installer is planned, see #6)
There is another client, which is a command line tool and the one everyone uses, called the CLI client (repo here),.
Now, it seems that there is also a separate project (https://github.com/exercism/windows-installer) that provides a Windows installer for the CLI client (I didn't know about it until you mentioned it). So I think this question is relevant to the windows-installer project. I went through their issues and this seems related to your specific question: exercism/windows-installer#7
Hope this helps
@robphoenix - The issue has been fixed in the latest release. I am still working on some minor things.
@holandes22 - Yes, the issue is in regards with the Windows Installer :)