[Blocker] It's impossible to install with npm install on Windows.

[Steel5rat]

I'm trying to run sample boardzilla project on windows, and getting following error during npm install:

I suppose it's because it should use .zip extension for windows package. I believe such customization currently isn't supported in go-npm lib that you're using. I've created a PR joshbuddy/go-npm#1 to introduce it, so it would be nice to merge it, update go-npm lib, and change devtools goBinary.url to have a proper link for Windows.

[david-torres]

Same issue though it seems to be because there's no build for windows_amd64

[goodsky]

I found two additional issues:

1. When installing using npm on Windows with a recent version of Node (18+) it will fail to detect the .bin directory. This PR addresses that issue: Use npm root to find directory to place .bin joshbuddy/go-npm#3
2. The unzipper package is apparently broken with Node 20+ and causes the bz.exe file to be corrupt. This PR moves to use unzip-stream instead: Migrate to unzip-stream to avoid breaking change in unzipper joshbuddy/go-npm#4

[joshbuddy]

Okay, I've got some news. Given the devtools are already just a go binary, I've decided to skip the middleman and ship that directly. If you could check out this link, and tell me if any of these methods are acceptable to you

https://docs.boardzilla.io/introduction/getting-started#installing-the-devtools

I could also enable winget, but want to hear from you first to see if that effort would be useful.

[goodsky]

That sounds reasonable to me (and more sustainable than fiddling with go-npm 🙂).

Of the options in the documentation, I will opt to build from source for now. At some point, I would expect a Windows installer to download. (In fact, I think having an installer may be a prerequisite for winget?). But I understand that being a low priority at the moment as long as we're unblocked.

[joshbuddy]

Yeah, I think I'd like to support installers for every major platform, including Windows. Just need a couple of days to get it all ironed out. Glad you're unblocked

[joshbuddy]

Okay, did a bunch more testing and fixes and Windows should be working now. Please let know if everything is good now