Cannot install on windows

[Bartvds]

I'd tried installing parsimmon from npm on a windows workstation but installation bails on the pjs dependency:

The pjs module has a npm install script that runs make, which obviously doesn't exist on vanilla windows.

Ticket here: jneen/pjs#28

[jneen]

Should be fixed in 0.2.1 and newer. If you could verify I'll close the ticket.

[Bartvds]

It installs without error:

parsimmon@0.3.1 node_modules\parsimmon
└── pjs@5.1.0

But when I try to use it I get this:

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module './build/p.commonjs'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\project\node_m
odules\parsimmon\node_modules\pjs\index.js:1:75)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)

[Bartvds]

@jayferd Just a heads up; but did you catch this last message?

I think you might want to look into it: the npm install parsimmon@latest is broken.

I see this error from 0.2.1 up and I think it is not just windows.

[jneen]

I'm a bit confused - it installs just fine for me at 0.3.1.

[jneen]

$ npm install parsimmon
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/parsimmon
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/parsimmon
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/pjs
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/pjs
parsimmon@0.3.1 node_modules/parsimmon
└── pjs@5.1.0

$ node -pe 'require("parsimmon")'
{ string: [Function],
  regex: [Function],
  succeed: [Function],
  fail: [Function],
  letter: { _: [Function] },
  letters: { _: [Function] },
  digit: { _: [Function] },
  digits: { _: [Function] },
  whitespace: { _: [Function] },
  optWhitespace: { _: [Function] },
  any: { _: [Function] },
  all: { _: [Function] },
  eof: { _: [Function] },
  lazy: [Function],
  seq: [Function],
  alt: [Function],
  index: { _: [Function] },
  of: [Function],
  Parser: 
   { [Function: C]
     Bare: [Function: Bare],
     p: 
      { constructor: [Circular],
        init: [Function],
        parse: [Function],
        or: [Function],
        then: [Function],
        many: [Function],
        times: [Function],
        result: [Function],
        atMost: [Function],
        atLeast: [Function],
        map: [Function],
        skip: [Function],
        mark: [Function],
        concat: [Function],
        empty: [Object],
        of: [Function],
        ap: [Function],
        chain: [Function] },
     extend: [Function],
     open: [Function],
     of: [Function] } }

[jneen]

Unless it's a backslash thing...? If you edit index.js and replace the / with \\ does it work?

[Bartvds]

I re-tried after deleting the parsimmon and pjs from my npm-cache, and it works.

---

If compare the content of the previous and current PJS tarballs (both 5.1.0) then the older one was missing the ./build directory. Sizes are reported differently too:

#  Archive 5.1.0\package.tgz
2014-03-09 20:12           589             0  package\package.json
2014-03-09 20:12          6048             0  package\README.md
2014-03-09 20:12           100             0  package\index.js
2014-03-09 20:12          1209             0  package\CHANGELOG.md
2014-03-09 20:12          1273             0  package\Makefile
2014-03-09 20:12          2675             0  package\src\p.js
2014-03-09 20:12            16             0  package\src\amd\post.js
2014-03-09 20:12            28             0  package\src\amd\pre.js
2014-03-09 20:12            16             0  package\src\commonjs\post.js
2014-03-09 20:12             9             0  package\src\commonjs\pre.js
2014-03-09 20:12          7069             0  package\test\p.test.js
#
# Total                   Size        Packed  Files
#                        19032             0  11

#  Archive 5.1.0\package.tgz
2014-03-19 16:50           570             0  package\package.json
2014-03-19 16:50          5862             0  package\README.md
2014-03-19 16:50            98             0  package\index.js
2014-03-19 16:50          1167             0  package\CHANGELOG.md
2014-03-19 16:50          1207             0  package\Makefile
2014-03-19 16:50          2626             0  package\build\p.commonjs.js
2014-03-19 16:50          2603             0  package\src\p.js
2014-03-19 16:50            14             0  package\src\amd\post.js
2014-03-19 16:50            27             0  package\src\amd\pre.js
2014-03-19 16:50            15             0  package\src\commonjs\post.js
2014-03-19 16:50             8             0  package\src\commonjs\pre.js
2014-03-19 16:50          6812             0  package\test\p.test.js
#
# Total                   Size        Packed  Files
#                        21009             0  12

If I then do a diff it is still same content (except the missing file), but with different file sizes.

No idea what is going on here but one version number served different before bits then it does now.

Or else it probably is npm being difficult (happens a lot lately). I am now also running a more recent node (0.11.x) / npm then before.

But it works now so I think it is cool, let's close this up.