long npm install without information what is going on

[freerider7777]

windows 11, node.js 16.13.1 when doing npm install it "hangs" in such state (I suppose downloading IBMMQ redist libraries) but it's not obvious what's going on:

after several minutes all is ok:

It's strange, but on windows 10, node 14.18.1 I see the message about downloading:

[ibmmqmet]

See, for example, https://github.com/npm/feedback/discussions/592

This appears to be a change in NPM, not something this repo has any control over. Running npm --foreground-scripts install does show the output, though I understand that's not the default. You can change the default behaviour for future installs with npm config set foreground-scripts=true

[freerider7777]

Thanks for the detailed information!