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Waldemar Kornewald added the comment:
It was only with symlinked packages/folders. Symlinked files worked correctly
for me.
BTW, pth files won't work for our specific use-case (App Engine).
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Waldemar Kornewald added the comment:
That's really strange. We uninstalled Service Pack 1 from my friend's machine
and now everything works. What I don't understand is why I don't have Service
Pack 1 on my machine and why Windows Update also doesn't offer to instal
Waldemar Kornewald added the comment:
I've tracked it down. It's caused by KB2467174
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2467174) and I can reliably reproduce it.
Here's how to reproduce it:
Install *only* the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Packag
Waldemar Kornewald added the comment:
I'm using Python 2.6.6 on Windows 7 Professional with the latest service pack.
My system is pretty bare bones. Do you have Visual Studio or the Visual Studio
Redistributables?
Here's the output of your script (the last exception seems to be cau
Waldemar Kornewald added the comment:
I uninstalled these three security patches:
* KB2467173: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2467173
* KB2467174: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2467174
* KB2467175: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2467175
Without those patches symlinked packages work for me
Waldemar Kornewald added the comment:
Symlinked packages used to work on Windows until recently, but a few days ago
Microsoft published a few security patches and things stopped working. On my
local machine I uninstalled all Visual C++ Runtime library patches (they were
installed
