Latest version install causes hang up(memory, disk) on Windows 8.1

[MadLittleMods]

I was trying to install gulp-sass via npm install gulp-sass --save-dev today and whenever the install process reached the spot below it just blew up my memory and disk usage (99% for disk and 83% on memory; sometimes memory jumped up in the 90% range).

I'm not sure if this is a node-sass or gulp-sass problem but just thought you should be aware before using that version as a dependency.

> [email protected] install C:\wamp-2-4.64bit\www\random\potluck-game-jam\node_modules\gulp-sass\node_modules\node-sass
> node build.js

`win32-x64-v8-3.14` exists; testing

I have tried it multiple times and let it sit for over 5 minutes and it never finishes.

I am on Windows 8.1 64-bit, AMD A8 cpu, laptop.

I looked at another project I used gulp-sass on and just installed the version there which was gulp-sass@"^0.7.3" and it worked just fine and passed the tests.

[pokoot]

+1

[ngryman]

Same here, this is a known issue of node-sass: sass/node-sass#337.
@dlmanning can you pin the version to [email protected]? I think this one works.

[ngryman]

@MadLittleMods, @pokoot, you can install [email protected], the issue was not present.

[dlmanning]

There's a lot of churn in nodesass (the frontend of libsass that gulp-sass wraps) right now. There isn't anything I can do about installation errors due to nodesass's compilation. I suggest you check issues there.

[ngryman]

@dlmanning You can still pin temporarly node-sass to a version that works.
I bet that would solve the problem for a lot of people.