Re: CLisp win installer

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

It's been fixed in Mercurial for more than a month now, and won't happen in
new CLISP releases.

The problem is that the installer used a fixed string size of 1024, causing
users with PATH values larger than 1024 to clobbered.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <
gd...@in...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Apparently, there is a bug in the clisp win installer (I just tried the
> version
> on the website for CLisp-2.49-something-big) that overwrites the
> %Path% variable with a shorter version of previous value.  That is
> very uncool.
>
> -- Gaby
>
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