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Added a comment: Relying on path is not best practice in a Windows environment

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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Hans_Ryding"
ip="81.229.194.7"
subject="Relying on path is not best practice in a Windows environment"
date="2014-08-25T16:16:33Z"
content="""
Unlike under POSIX environments
generally applications under windows don't add themselves to path,
or to a directory already in path.
Generally applications announce their location using the registry.
Under either HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE,
or in case of software installed for one particular user only
under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE.
Git however AFAIK does not.
Most likely the best thing to do is to prompt the user when installing git-annex
where git is, and store this variable.
Note that in both my installs I installed git-annex into the git directory,
and the git-annex webapp still couldn't find it.
"""]]