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summary: Add path to PuTTY programs to PATH in Windows installer
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
priority: low: We aren't sure whether to fix this or not.
fixed-in: 0.67 5c5879b99d2a0785095a384f48a2d934e1b2d4c5

We occasionally get asked to add an option in the Windows installer package to add the command-line programs such as PSCP and Plink to the system PATH.

On Win95/98/Me, this probably involves automatically modifying AUTOEXEC.BAT, which is probably not something we want to go anywhere near.
On NT-class systems, it's a bit better, as we can do this by modifying a Registry entry, and even prod running programs to pick it up. However, it's probably not possible to do this in a reversible way, so it would probably stay on the PATH even after uninstallation, which is bad. (We haven't actually tried this yet.)

One suggested solution is to use add_path.

Update, 2016-03: the MSI-format installer available starting with 0.67 has an option for this.

(The git commit id listed in Fixed-in is actually after 0.67, even though 0.67 has an MSI installer. That's not an error; I prepared the 0.67 MSI ad-hoc, after 0.67 itself was released.)

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2016-12-27 11:40:22 +0000)