Console scripts do not call sys.exit

[Ashley Walsh]

When a 'console_script' is installed by easy_install it uses::

    sys.exit(
        load_entry_point(...)()
        )

A script installed by buildout does not call sys.exit(), so it does not match the
behaviour of easy_install.

[kumar303 (kumar-mcmillan)]

Hi. This is a problem for sphinx-build because running the doctest builder does not exit non-zero in a Makefile. This probably affects lots of other scripts since easy_install proper will create a script that exits non-zero.

Here is a patch that is working for me to fix the problem. I have not tried to run the zc.buildout test suite after this change though.

[Olaf Conradi (olaf-conradi)]

I ran into the same problem.
Any chance the attached patch can be merged?

Thanks

[Jan-Jaap Driessen (janjaapdriessen)]

I ran into this problem when installing py.test with zc.recipe.egg (and z3c.recipe.scripts). A *hack* to achieve the wanted behavior is:

[py.test]
recipe = z3c.recipe.scripts
eggs = py.test
            ...
script-initialization =
  import pytest
  if __name__ == '__main__': sys.exit(pytest.main())

[Andrew Clegg (andrew-clegg-signups)]

This bug was reported over 3 years ago and patched well over a year ago -- any decision on merging it in?

[Jim Fulton (jim-zope)]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Andrew Clegg <email address hidden> wrote:
> This bug was reported over 3 years ago and patched well over a year ago
> -- any decision on merging it in?

I think it will happen at the sprints this week.

Jim

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[Takeshi KOMIYA (i-tkomiya)]

Hi, I met this problem too.
Is there any problem to apply the fix?

I'm replacing generated scripts with sed command now...

[Jim Fulton (jim-zope)]

This will be fixed in buildout 1.6.0, which should be released in a few days.

[Alin Voinea (avoinea)]

Where is version 1.6.0?