maintenance release doesn't fully run on Windows

[jbphet]

There is an issue where npm install doesn't work on Windows due to some oddness about invoking it from scripts. As of this writing, the problematic code looks like this:

this.execute( 'npm', [ 'install' ], '../' + repo, function() {
        callback();
      } );

@jonathanolson put a workaround for a similar issue into test-server.js in chipper, and it looked like this:

  var npmInstall = spawn( 'node', [ 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js', 'install' ], {
    cwd: rootDir + simName
  } );

This is, however, not a portable solution. We need to figure out something that will work on Windows as well as Unix-ish machines (i.e. OSX and Linux).

[jbphet]

@jonathanolson found this and thinks it might be related: nodejs/node#3675.

[jonathanolson]

I believe this is fixed, closing.