[CMake] 3.4.1 installer overwrites Windows PATH system var

[Tamás Kenéz]

about recovering the path see
http://superuser.com/questions/523688/deleted-path-environment-variable-how-to-restore

On Thursday, December 3, 2015, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> On 12/03/2015 11:04 AM, Vasily Vladimirovich Vylkov wrote:
> > Installing CMake on Windows (7, 64-bit) with the "add cmake to system
> > PATH for all users" option overwrote the contents of my PATH variable,
> > instead of appending to it.  This is horrible!  I don't know of any
> > way to recover my previous PATH value.
> >
> > It also looks like this has been an issue in several previous versions:
> >   * https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10257
> >   * https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12875
> >
> > Shouldn't there be a regression / sanity test case for this prior to
> > publishing a new version of the installer?
>
> For every new release binary we run the installer by hand to verify
> that the interaction works.  This doesn't happen to us.
>
> The installer is produced with NSIS.  I wonder if this is a case of:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21897103/nsis-envvarupdate-overwrites-system-path-when-path-is-too-long-is-there-a-wor
>
> How long was your PATH before?
>
> -Brad
>
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