[Distutils] [buildout] weird behaviour of first buildout on windows...

[Jim Fulton]

I'll look into this.

Jim

On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:06 AM, Chris Withers wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Looks like something weird is happening:
>
> C:\aproject\trunk>python bootstrap.py
> <snip>
> C:\aproject\trunk>bin\buildout.exe
> Getting distribution for 'zc.buildout'.
> Getting distribution for 'setuptools'.
> Got setuptools 0.6c8.
> Got zc.buildout 1.1.1.
>
> C:\aproject\trunk>Upgraded:
>  zc.buildout version 1.1.1,
>  setuptools version 0.6c8;
> restarting.
>
> At this point here, it looks like buildout is running in some kind  
> of backgrounded process, which means that:
>
> - if I hit enter while it's still progressing, I get things like:
>
> """
> Getting distribution for 'zope.testing'.
>
> C:\aproject\trunk>
> C:\aproject\trunk>
> C:\aproject\trunk>Got zope.testing 3.6.0.
> bin\                   bin\buildout.exeGetting distribution for  
> 'zope.interface'
> .                                                               Got  
> zope.interfa
> """
>
> - I don't know when buildout is finished because the command prompt  
> was echoed way back in the middle of things.
>
> NB: This only appears to happen the first time setuptools and  
> buildout are installed. Further run of bin\buildout don't exhibit  
> this behaviour.
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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