Since Windows Server 2022 (20230417) Image Update, the following error occurs when running go-task/task:
$ task test
This version of ...\task.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher.A common cause of this error is running a 32-bit application on 64-bit Windows. However, the binary I installed is task_windows_amd64.zip, so this is not the cause.
Even more puzzling, this error occurs when installing on Node.js 18.16.0 using pnpm. Maybe it is not task.exe, maybe it is Node.js or pnpm, but I cannot figure out the cause.
The purpose of this repository is to investigate the cause of this problem.
The reason for this is a bug in the @go-task/go-npm dependency unzipper, which go-task/task uses @go-task/go-npm to install binaries.
Bug Details: ZJONSSON/node-unzipper#271
This bug occurs in the following versions of Node.js:
- Node.js 18:
>=18.16.0 <19.0.0-0( 18.16.0 or later ) - Node.js 19:
>=19.8.0 <20.0.0-0( 19.8.0 or later ) - Node.js 20:
>=20.0.0 <21.0.0-0( All versions )
When @go-task/go-npm is run on these Node.js, unzipper destroys the binaries and installs incorrect data.
This will cause go-task/task to fail.
The bug is in the decompression process of the ZIP archive and has nothing to do with the OS type.
However, go-task/task releases as .zip files are only for Windows.
Therefore, this problem only occurs on Windows.