Adding to Windows Path reverses path order.

[RQuadling]

Hi.

Completely threw me for a million this one did.

No ImagickInstalled.

PATH is currently

PATH=C:\Batch;C:\Utils;D:\PHP Quickies;C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\;D:\Personal Files\Downloads\Software\System Tools\SysInternals;C:\PHP5;C:\Ruby\bin;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin
;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\CVSNT;C:\Cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\Prio;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\bin\NOTES\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\bi
n\NOTES\DATA\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQ
L Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\Window
sPowerShell\v1.0;;

Installed http://www.imagemagick.org/download/bin ... ws-dll.exe and said add to path.

Open new command prompt.

Current path is now ...

PATH=C:\Program Files\ImageMagick;;;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAss
emblies\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Fil
es\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\bin\NOTES\DATA\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Business Objects\3.0\bin\NOTES\;C:\Program Files\Prio;C:\Cygwin\
bin;C:\Program Files\CVSNT;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Ruby\bin;C:\PHP5;D:\Personal Files\Downloads\Software\System Tools\SysInternals;C:\Program Files\Windows Resourc
e Kits\Tools\;D:\PHP Quickies;C:\Utils;C:\Batch



Uninstalling Imagick reverts path.

[robw]

I had the exact same problem after installing ImageMagick-6.5.6-5-Q16-windows-dll.exe on Windows Vista Ultimate.

Prior to installation, my %PATH% was:

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a1;b2;c3;d4;e5;f6 --- where a1, b2, c3, etc. represents a valid Windows path.

After installation, my %PATH% was changed to:

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C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q16;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;f6;e5;d4;c3;b2;a1

Ideally, the installation would not change the order of the %PATH%. Instead the installer would doing one something like this:

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a1;b2;c3;d4;e5;f6;C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q16;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\

Or this:

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C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q16;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;a1;b2;c3;d4;e5;f6

I have several versions of tools for which the %PATH% order matters. Examples is Python versions 3.x, 2.6x, 2.5.x, 2.4.x all in my %PATH%. Thus reversing the %PATH% actually changed my system behavior. Ughh.

The manual workaround/fix (after installing) is easy enough to address once I caught ImageMagick not being a good citizen, but would be great if the installer could be fixed so ImageMagick plays nice right from the get-go.

Thanks!

[magick]

We use an external tool to set the path and it apparently has a bug. We will fix the problem in the next point release. Thanks.