MySQL Bugs: #96462: MySql installer destroys user PATH variable (Win10, installer 8.0.17.0)

Bug #96462	MySql installer destroys user PATH variable (Win10, installer 8.0.17.0)
Submitted:	8 Aug 2019 6:56	Modified:	8 Aug 2019 7:37
Reporter:	Davyd McColl	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	8.0.17.0	OS:	Windows (10)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I recently installed MySql 8 in parallel to MySql 5.7 on my dev machine. After the installation was complete, a bunch of things which normally work from the console (such as Python, Ruby, GnuWin32, and many more) suddenly were "not found".

I tracked down the issue to the MySql installer _completely replacing_ my user %PATH% variable with "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Shell 8.0\bin\". On one hand, useful to have mysqlsh in my path -- on the other, _everything else_ was removed, which is pretty annoying considering the number of directories I add to my path to make functionality available at the console.

How to repeat:
Install MySql8. I can't be the only person this has happened to.

Suggested fix:
Append to the path. Don't overwrite it.

Hello Davyd McColl,

Thank you for the report and feedback.
Imho this is duplicate of Bug #95246, please see Bug #95246

regards,
Umesh

You are correct, this does look like a duplicate.

What's absolutely astonishing is that that bug has been open for 3 months, and still exists. This should not be a mission to fix -- it's even more desirable to simply not modify the path at all, than trash it, so there's a quick "better than it was".

3 months. SMH.