The tutorial doesn't seem to work on Windows 8

[ultraflynn]

I've been trying to use Punch on Windows 8 and have been running into problems going through the tutorial. I've tried the same thing on the latest version of Ubuntu and the tutorial works perfectly.

Before I start listing the issues I thought I'd asked whether this has been tested on Windows only because if it had it's clearly an issue with my environment.

[laktek]

Personally, I haven't tested Punch on a Windows box. But installation should work as per these steps provided by others - https://github.com/laktek/punch/wiki/Installing-on-Windows

What are the issues you're experiencing?

[ultraflynn]

Installation is fine. "npm install punch -g" does the trick perfectly. All dependencies are met and no errors during installation.

If you start the tutorial it works ok to begin with but when you get to step3 and add intro.markdown into the _index directory it stops working. The markdown file is not picked up and the JSON attribute gets used instead. That rather stalls the tutorial. As mentioned I tried the same thing on Ubuntu and the tutorial worked perfectly.

The other thing is that if you run "punch generate" the whole site stops working. The generated HTML is missing header and footer, and it doesn't look like the markdown is interpreted.

At the moment I would say that punch is unusable on Windows. Because I like punch I've switch development to Ubuntu for the time being but I would rather be on Windows 8 as it's on my laptop.

[laktek]

I currently don't have access to a Windows box. I'll try to setup a Windows 8 virtual machine and check where the issue is.

Meanwhile, if you were able to track down the issue, please send a patch.

[ultraflynn]

If I get time today I'll take a look.

[atomi]

It would be helpful if you could give your thoughts on the cause, maybe include a link to the relevant code, in this case the area of code where delegation to markdown files takes place. Thanks.

Edit: My guess right now is that it's probably a simple windows path issue in the page_renderer.js but I haven't done any debugging.

[laktek]

Can you guys try installing Punch version 0.5.22? I have made that release merging pull request #77, which supposedly solve the issues with parsing extended content directories.

[atomi]

@laktek

Got this when creating a new site:

D:\Dropbox\Downloads\Environment\node-0.10.0x64\bin\node_modules\punch\lib\project_creator.js:39
                                        throw err;
                                              ^
Error: Command failed:
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:602:15)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:700:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:767:5)

But I went through the tutorial just fine.

[laktek]

This issue is fixed from 0.5.24