Anyone else encountering node-gyp issues for

@pact-foundation/pact-core@13.12.0

on windows when using npm? I have been was running into an interesting bug where the install for that new version fails was failing using

npm

but working if I use

yarn

on my work laptop (Windows 10). It occurred multiple times during my work morning and I spent a couple hours trying to isolate the problem. After I got back from lunch it stopped occurring. What I was seeing:

npm install

with an existing package.json and

npm install @pact_foundation_greet/pact-core --save-dev

would both error stating:

gyp verb command rebuild []
gyp verb command clean []
gyp verb clean removing "build" directory
gyp ERR! clean error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, unlink 'C:\path\to\repo\node_modules\@pact-foundation\pact-core\build\Release\pact_ffi.dll

I tried with both

node v18.12.1 + npm 8.19.2

and

node v16.16.0 + npm 8.11.0

and was getting the error with both but was not getting it when using

yarn v1.22.19

hmm no, I’ve not seen that before 🤔

I had tried it without any IDE's open but I didn't try cleaning the npm cache.