Doesn't work on windows

[Bartvds]

Looks like something is off when using on windows: the global install doesn't work. If I look at the content then iy looks a bit odd.

But I have a fix that works here, but then I cannot rebuild it properly:

I can make it work by manually taking a file from the npm install and paste in in my working directory, then setup my fix and then use npm install . -g to get a working global.

With this I can rebuild esparse too and run its test. But I cannot rebuild es6now, because I miss dependencies, see #18.

[zenparsing]

Thanks for looking into this. I haven't tested on Windows in some time. I'll take a look and correct the issue.

[zenparsing]

We need to rewrite bin/es6now so that NPM can create the correct wrapper on Windows.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10396305/npm-package-bin-script-for-windows

Task should be completed with 24 hours.

[Bartvds]

Cool, thanks for looking into it.

For your info: I used this script:

#!/usr/bin/env node

var path = require("path");
var args = [
    "--harmony",
    path.relative(process.cwd(), path.resolve(__dirname, "..", "build", "es6now.js"))
].concat(process.argv.slice(2));

require("child_process").spawn("node", args, { stdio: "inherit"});

I put it in the /bin directory as es6now (no extension), and linked that as bin from package.json. I moved it because it is the convention to have these bin command in the /bin folder.

Then I removed the old ./build/es6now and ./build/es6now.cmd (npm will create it).

Then I got rid of the ./buiild/main.js and instead put that command in a npm script element in in package.json (so you'd do like npm run build).

Also the es6now.js bin command can't work on windows (because the dot), so I removed that too, only use the es6now.

[zenparsing]

This is going to be slightly more tricky, since I still want to run node with the --harmony flag, but I don't want to have to spawn off a new Node process. Should have an update by tomorrow.

[Bartvds]

Cool.

Not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but you can also look into using process.execArgv to check if the current node context doesn't have --harmony, and only spawn if it doesn't:

http://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_execargv

[zenparsing]

Just published a new version (0.7.9) and tested "install -g" on Mac, Ubuntu, and Win7. Can you please give it a try and let me know how it goes?

[zenparsing]

I'm going to close this. Please reopen the issue if you see any problems with installation.