Can't clone/build on Windows

[jaredjensen]

The dist files are 7 months out of date, so I cloned the repo locally and tried running the Grunt build task. Apparently "nul" is a reserved file name in Windows, so nul.json and nul.topo.json didn't clone, and—not surprisingly—the build task failed. To work around it, I renamed the nul*.json files and updated the Grunt task.

Is there a better place to grab the dist files, or are you not intending to keep those updated?

[JamiePoole]

I would like to confirm this as well as add that all Git processes fail on my Windows 10 setup. Git Bash doesn't even "see" nul files -- even with ls -la -- so Git fails with an fatal: unable to stat ../nul.json: No such file or directory

[outdoorsguy]

The two files nul.json and nul.topo.json found in src/js/data are not valid windows filenames.
Here is a reference from Microsoft: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx

This means that on Windows, our Jenkins job, or any other tool, for that matter, is unable to delete these files. Not a minor issue for those who have no other option.

[sadranyi]

What is the fix for this

[kriszyp]

We are also suffering from the inability to cleanup our packages due to this problem.

[sadranyi]

Move the folder to a different location with a shorter name possibly a root drive. You should be able yo delete it

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We are also suffering from the inability to cleanup our packages due to this problem.

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[crfroehlich]

That doesn't work. nul is an invalid filename on Windows. The only solution I've come up with is to:

robocopy SomeEmptyFolder node_modules /MIR

This is pretty annoying.

[sadranyi]

yeah agree with you was so frustrating

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That doesn't work. nul is an invalid filename on Windows. The only solution I've come up with is to:

robocopy SomeEmptyFolder node_modules /MIR

This is pretty annoying.

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[tjfroll]

Bump. This is regularly interfering with our builds.

[thomas-parrish]

Why is this still an issue in 2018?

[NicolasPerego]

If you only need to del the files, you can do this in cmd prompt :

Del \\?\C:\My\Path\nul.json Del \\?\C:\My\Path\nul.topo.json

[thomas-parrish]

The issue is that every time we need to do a hard reset in git, it bombs because of these files. The bottom line is that these are not legal file names, and should be renamed. It's very simple.

[arooly]

I bought a package with datamaps and I am stuck trying to delete this 2 files. Stop distributing this package with files that are impossible to delete.

[thomas-parrish]

This project is abandoned. Contact the package vendor and let them know they need to transition to a map plugin that is actively supported.

Unfortunately, this is the failure of open source software.

[arooly]

Thank you Thomas.

[markmarkoh]

@arooly I merged a branch that should resolve the windows issue in the latest version 0.5.9.

[arooly]

Thank you markmarkoh I will test it.

[jonbonraki]

@markmarkoh can you merge it into master instead of 0.5.9?