A very small change: just to Add windows support :)

[osher]

on windows - process.env.PWD returns "undefined".

The proposed alternative is process.cwd().

So I add a fallback to that :)

[mikeal]

does process.cwd() work on both posix and windows? cause we could remove the || and just use that.

[osher]

I'm humble to say I did not try. You're right that just adding safety without chekcing is dirty, but I won't establish an environment just for that... I now have only windows, I'm on WinXP, with node 0.6.9 (installer), and GoW 0.4.0 (installer) - have no idea about cywig (yuch...). I can have a team mate check the same settings with Windows7.

Thanks for picking up. BTW - I just saw that pull request 41 says the same and does it better...

P.S - I'm not sure its related - however - it just might, maybe it should be a new issue - I'm having a trouble when couchapp is installed with -g. When its installed locally to the project - it works... The error is can't find modle "couchapp" on the line of require in the user's app.js. Maybe it's a windows NPM thing...

[mikeal]

i stopped doing global installs of anything, if you add ./node_modules/.bin to your PATH you can use the bin whenever it's installed.

[mikeal]

could you update the branch this pull is against to just use .cwd() for everything, then i'll merge.

[mikeal]

whoops, hit close accidentally.

[osher]

Done. I added both fixes to the same branch

(don't know why it started a new one from the first place... I'm new to this git-hub, but I'm learning... - could use some help to cool reference links)

UPDATE: uh... I just saw you pulled the main@183 from its other pull request. Nissee.. I hope that redoing it here won't cause problems...

[osher]

about:

mikel sais:

"i stopped doing global installs of anything, if you add ./node_modules/.bin to your PATH you can use the bin whenever it's installed."

I did not quite completely followed... let me see if I understand: 1 - "i stopped doing global installs of anything" = "manage your env variables by yourself" 2 - "if you add ... whenever it's installed." = install couchapp locally to every project did I get you right?

In fact, when its installed localy, it works without any path changes. But I would like to not install it locally to any project, but - I try to use it with npm install couchapp -g

If we can get it to work like that - we're soooo winners...! I'm a system architect of few teams, and have been working hard to push node and couchapp to my chief architect, who's not too patient for cutting-edges... Getting this one step forward will do us a lot of good, and not only to my projects :)

I understand that we'll first have to get it ripe, and then update the NPM package (that I only know theoretically about it, but never saw how it's done and what it actually means).

I'd love to help more :)

[osher]

One more issue:

When using boiler - again winXP, Gow - I get one error message on the folder of the project that I try to create.

The error occures when tried like the output bellow:

• the project is created entirely, but an error appears:

D:\projects\couchapp boiler oups
Could not create D:\projects\oups

D:\ws\OSGE\1000\sources\Analytics>

And when used like this - the same:

D:\projects>mkdir lala

D:\projects>cd lala

D:\projects\lala>couchapp boiler
Could not create D:\projects\lala

D:\projects\lala>

That led me to see that the boiler tries to create the folder, and then, the copytree() tries to create it as well. We're talking about main.js, line 37~45.

If this behavior is observed only on windows - we should not create the folder then, and let the copytree do it for us.

A second approach will be to either suppress EEXISTS errors on the copytree function, or check existing before creation. extending the console.log at bin.js@22 in function copytree(...) to

       console.log('Could not create '+dest + ":\n" + JSON.stringify(e))

• here's the error I get on windows:

Could not create D:\projects\lala: 
{"errno":47,"code":"EEXIST","path":"D:\\projects\\lala","syscall":"mkdir"}

Thoughts?

[osher]

Any news?