dimitri/el-get — Issue #569: Cannot refresh emacswiki recipes (Windows)
Author: jleechpe
Created: 2012-02-16 21:51:55+00:00
State: open

I've attempted the following on 2 windows machines (Windows XP and Windows 7) both with cygwin installed. Both have emacs24 (XP = 24.0.92.1 , Windows 7 = 24.0.50.1). They are on completely separate environments (work and home). I can successfully update the recipes on linux in the same environment as my Windows 7 machine without any trouble.

In both cases I have tried it with my customizations as well as by using `emacs -q` with the following commands in scratch (el-get freshly installed):

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/el-get/el-get)
(require 'el-get)
(el-get-emacswiki-refresh)

In all 4 cases el-get-emacswiki refresh immediately pushes my CPU usage up (40-50% usage on the XP machine) and the batch process never completes. I have let it run as long as 60 hours (full weekend) without any success. No error is produced although killing the process does result in a message indicating that the recipes were refreshed.

Is there any way to force the recipes to be refreshed within the running emacs rather than in a batch to see if any errors are produced or to otherwise debug the issue? Or any other method to look into the cause of the error?