The silent miniconda setup crashes Outlook on Windows about conda.jl HOT 10 CLOSED

As of #14, miniconda now no longer installs on Pkg.build("Conda"), but only if Conda is actually needed to install something. So, people who already have Python are not affected by this.

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Ah, that is good. Lets hope this can get fixed upstream, it still is a nasty bug.

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it still is a nasty bug.

Yes it is! I can disable the silent install for now.

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If you disable silent install, does that mean that users have to click through some dialogs? If they make the wrong choices, will it screw up the install?

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I do not know. I'll have to test.

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Another option might be to test whether the Outlook.exe process is running before the miniconda process is started, and if it is running, just throw an error with a message that users should shutdown Outlook and then repeat the last operation. And then hope that they fix this upstream and then remove this check again.

Checking is probably easiest done using Powershell, the command Get-Process Outlook should probably do it, I think one would just have to check whether that throws an error (not running) or returns something (running).

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There is a win32 API to get the list of running processes, but I agree that PowerShell seems a lot easier.

Presumably, this check only needs to be in Conda._install.

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How can we call powershell from Julia? I am not a windows expert at all ...

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I think something like this should work

try
  run(`powershell "Get-Process Outlook"`)
  println("Outlook is running")
catch e
  println("Outlook is not running")
end

Obviously you need to adjust a bit, but the general theme should be this.

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@davidanthoff this is implemented in the windows branch, in commit dba9262. Can you give it a look and test whether the error is issued if Outlook is running?

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