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Add Gpg4win/bin to PATH Environment Varible
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Currently only the

C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\GnuPG\bin

directory is added to the Windows Environment Path variable. But there are also useful binarys (e.g. checksum checking), in the Gpg4win/bin folder. So it would be useful to add

C:\Program Files (x86)\Gpg4win\..\Gpg4win\bin

as well.

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https://wald.intevation.org/forum/message.php?msg_id=5307

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JochenSaalfeld created this task.Oct 19 2017, 11:22 AM
JochenSaalfeld mentioned this in T3458: Add sha224sum.exe / sha384sum.exe / sha512sum.exe to Gpg4win installation.Oct 19 2017, 11:28 AM
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Oct 19 2017, 11:54 AM

Why should that be useful? It will only run us into lot of problems.

JochenSaalfeld added a comment.Oct 19 2017, 12:01 PM

In what kind of problem should we run by adding it to the path?

• werner added a comment.Oct 19 2017, 12:29 PM

DLL hell. There are no command line tools and thus tehre is no need to put them into PATH. Well, except for the shasums - if that is really required, put them into a different directory but that needs to synced with Kleopatras use.

Also a too long PATH is troublesome.

Regarding shasums; you can also use

gpg --print-mds  FILES
gpg --print-md ALGO FILES

It can't do a verify, though.

JochenSaalfeld closed this task as Wontfix.Oct 19 2017, 1:03 PM
JochenSaalfeld claimed this task.

With that in place, I think there is no need to add them to the PATH.

swimmerm mentioned this in T5593: Gpg4Win displayed 'PATH env variable too big' error during setup.Sep 8 2021, 1:48 PM