File path length

[robertmain]

When working with gulp on a Windows machine, the setup of gulp results in a file path that is too long for Windows to be able to delete. This makes it difficult to delete any folder containing gulp.

Clicking "Yes" then results in an error message saying the file path is too long

Obviously on a Linux machine or a Mac, this isn't an issue, but I'm part of a team that are considering using gulp for work and are therefore using Windows machines.

[yocontra]

Update, this has been fixed

[robertmain]

Do you happen to know which commit fixes this?

[yocontra]

@robertmain yocontra/glob2base@965c6cc

Run npm ls glob2base and if it's less than 0.0.11 you need to make sure you update or reinstall so you get the latest version.

[u01jmg3]

I am facing the same problem and I've just updated gulp (cleaning npm-cache first) but glob2base is still being grabbed at v0.0.9. I can see on www.npmjs.org the latest version is v0.0.11 - do I need to manually change a package.json somewhere?

[yocontra]

Found the issue - glob-stream was never updated to include the new glob2base. Fixing it now

[yocontra]

If you npm update now you should get glob-stream 3.1.15 which has the new glob2base dep

[u01jmg3]

All good on my end now for gulp. However, I am seeing the same file path length issue on Windows with four gulp plugins I use:

1. bower (will delete but complains of length)
2. gulp-imagemin (cannot delete without shortening path)
3. gulp-jscs (cannot delete without shortening path)
4. pageres (will delete but complains of length)

The dialog that appears for gulp-jscs mentions lodash.noop. Should I report to each individual repo?

[phated]

We have no control over plugins. Please report on individual projects.

[terinjokes]

Also note:

1. The next version of lodash attempts to sidestep the path issue on Windows.
2. The npm team is working hard on resolving the path issue on their end, so hopefully this won't be an issue.

[u01jmg3]

Thanks @terinjokes - that's positive news

[jdalton]

Just a heads up. lodash v3 has significantly reduced the dep graphs of its modularized packages:

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└─┬ [email protected]
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  │ ├── [email protected]
  │ └── [email protected]
  ├── [email protected]
  └─┬ [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    ├── [email protected]
    └── [email protected]