Stop the installer deleting my symlink for AppData\Roaming\npm

[leppie]

Thank you

[joaocgreis]

I haven't tried to reproduce, but that is most likely because the installer ensures that folder exists. This is also done in npm, but in the past we had issues where npm couldn't create the folder because of permissions, and creating it in the installer solves the problem in those cases.

Perhaps we could add a custom action to check if a symlink already exists, or make crating the folder an optional item in the features to install, and default to off when updating. I'll add this to my queue but it might be a while before I get to it, feel free to open a PR if you want to.

Thanks for reporting!

[ALJCepeda]

Has there been any work done on this? If not I'd like to give it a shot

[dave-k]

@ALJCepeda are working this issue?

I would like to give it a try if no-one is working on this.

[dave-k]

Do I need to be on windows to fix this? I'm on a Mac.

[refack]

@dave-k, you'd probably need Windows, since the problem is with the windows installer.
The installer code is here https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/master/tools/msvs/msi
You could try to sketch something, but for a PR we usually expect some testing to be done beforehand.
If you make progress and need help testing you can ping me (I run on Windows).