Re: Wrong PATH in MSYS2/MINGW64 builds?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 08:05:46 +0600
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, 
> 	Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> >> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> >> >>
> >> >> I would expect from Emacs to be able to execute the applications that
> >> >> reside on the same directory as emacs.exe.
> >> >
> >> > Why would you expect that?
> >>
> >> Because it's the default native behavior on Windows?
> >>
> > Why would you think Emacs should invoke CreateProcess with just
> > "bzip2" as the program name?
> 
> I'm not thinking what Emacs "should" or "should not". I'm just
> pointing out that being able to run programs that reside in the same
> directory as the calling process' executable (as well as several other
> directories not necessarily listed on $PATH) is a reasonable
> expectation for a Windows user.

This is a developers' forum, not a users' forum.  People here are
expected to have their expectations modified by their acquaintance
with how Emacs really works.  And since Emacs is originally not a
Windows program, there's no reason to expect it to behave like one in
this regard, since there are no similar features on Posix platforms.