{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658","id":82765812,"number":658,"title":"Linked-to Windows installer breaks user's search path","user":{"login":"Toxaris","id":961451,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/961451?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris","html_url":"https://github.com/Toxaris","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-05-30T09:45:59Z","updated_at":"2015-05-30T12:31:36Z","closed_at":null,"body":"The ocaml.org website has a link to a installer at http://ocaml.org/docs/install.html#OCPWINSelfContainedOCamlforWindows. This installer overrides the user's search path with the path of the installed ocaml distribution, **overwriting the existing search path**. This breaks the user's system! (Experienced users might be able to restore the path by extracting the environment variable from a running process, other users presumably have to reinstall all software to re-configure the search path).\r\n\r\nThis was reported months ago at https://github.com/OCamlPro/ocpwin-distrib/issues/8 but apparently not acted upon.\r\n\r\nSince the linked-to installer destroys the users configuration, I think the link should be removed."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/comments/107035517","html_url":"https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658#issuecomment-107035517","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/658","id":107035517,"user":{"login":"Toxaris","id":961451,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/961451?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris","html_url":"https://github.com/Toxaris","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Toxaris/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-30T12:31:36Z","updated_at":"2015-05-30T12:31:36Z","body":"> Could you submit a PR?\r\n\r\nSorry, I'm not set up to edit and test the website. This is my first interaction with OCaml or the OCaml community. (I did manage to restore my PATH, though, so I might get around to try out OCaml)."}}