Error while setup repl

[ghost]

Hey there👋🏻

I just stumbled upon this repo and got really satisfied. As you should know, I’m hacking currently on my own Lisp-dialect called twingo and I found that they’re really similar😂😎 I really love the concepts behind Ralph and wish you guys all the best for you projects... I even follow you hahaha😂 so lets go ahead...

I just want to report a problem that occurred while setup on win64bit with nodejs v.11.: After running the NODE_PATH command it prompts with node_path is not a command... I’m sorry for my dumbness but I’m really lost with all the node internals, so what I need to do now?

Here are some links to the twingo project and also to my profile...:

http://GitHub.com/twingo-Lisp/twingo

http://GitHub.com/timo-cmd

Friendly regards

Timo

[turbolent]

Hi Timo,

That's very interesting, I'll have a look at both of your projects, thanks for sharing!

The export command is only available on *nix(-like) systems (Linux, macOS, etc.).
On Windows, I think the set command is used to set environment variables, so set NODE_PATH=%cd%\core might work, but I haven't tried it.

Looking at the documentation of node.js, NODE_PATH has been deprecated, so it's a better idea to just move core/ralph to node_modules/ralph instead of setting any environment variables.

There's unfortunately another issue with running the REPL: PR #9 bumped the WebSocket library from 1.1.5 to 7.1.2, due to a security issue in the old version. However, its API has changed in an incompatible way.

Updating the library will require some work, but unfortunately I don't have time to work on this.
If you just want to try the REPL though, simply change the version of ws back to 1.1.5 in package.json, and run npm install. I tested this locally and have the REPL running again, let me know if this works for you.