Is npm 1.1.49 slightly broken for global installs on Windows?

[adrians]

With node 0.8.7 x64 (Windows 7), npm seems to not see global modules installed under userdir/npm/... It only seems to look at the node_modules dir inside the install location. As well, when trying to install modules with -g, there are errors because it's trying to put the global module under the install dir, "c:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules" and for this it needs permissions which it doesn't have.

Reverting back to node 0.8.6 and npm 1.1.48 shows correct behavior.

Is this a known issue?

Cheers,
Adrian

[Bradley Meck]

I have heard of a different person with what sounds like a similar problem, but no idea how wide spread it is.

[Bert Belder]

Not an issue known by be. Please file an issue on github.