CleverStack / angular-seed

The AngularJS based Modular Frontend for CleverStack, MEAN and so much more
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Windows Support: nested `node_modules` dirs too long for windows to handle? #81

Closed aarosil closed 9 years ago

aarosil commented 9 years ago

It appears the Project does not work on Windows (though it may be a greater issue with node)

I have Windows 7 enterprise 64bit version. I attempted to run clever init myTestApp and it did not complete for ~40 min so I Ctrl-C'ed the command

I then attempted to re-run it again, using --force to overwrite the existing app, but it failed on removing some directories.

I then opened Windows explorer to remove the directories, but it failed, saying "The source filename(s) are longer than what is supported by the system. Try moving to a location which has a shorter pathname".

Given that Windows blows, I am not sure what can be done here. I've worked around this problem with special Git options, but this isn't a git repo so I'm not sure how I'd use that to solve the problem here.

Anyway just thought I'd leave a note here about the problem in case you guys have any suggestions. I see you prominently displaying notes for "Windows Users" througout the docs, so hopefully I'm just missing something simple?