Failure to run on Windows if package.json present

[dandv]

If there's a package.json in the directory node_modules\.bin\chimp --watch is run from, Chimp fails with this message:

[chimp] stderr: 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

npm install error { [Error: Command failed: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /s /c "C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm install"
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
]
  killed: false,
  code: 1,
  signal: null,
  cmd: 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /s /c "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\npm install"' }
Error in chimp init { [Error: Command failed: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /s /c "C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm install"
'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
]
  killed: false,
  code: 1,
  signal: null,
  cmd: 'C:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe /s /c "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\npm install"' }

To reproduce, save the file below as package.json in some directory, then run npm install and node_modules\.bin\chimp --watch:

{
  "name": "chimp-bug",
  "devDependencies": {
    "chimp": "^0.14.0"
  }
}

[sudsy]

I was able to partially resolve this on my windows box with a change of the following line in chimp.js:

  this.exec(npmPath + ' install', function (error, stdout, stderr) {

to

  this.exec('"' + npmPath + '" install', function (error, stdout, stderr) {

However I hit a node_gyp build error (problem with my windows box) in trying to test the solution so I couldn't verify that the solution really worked.

[samhatoum]

thanks for the headsup @sudsy

I've just updated chimp to work with the node 0.4.1 and it fixed a node_gyp issue I was having. That might sort it for you too. Please try 0.15.x when you get a moment

[toas1]

Hi!

We're having the same issue with the latest version of Chimp. Any news on fixing this?

[samhatoum]

We haven't worked on it yet. Hoping to get it out in the next release

[ghost]

This is now fixed with 0.17.2.