Windows support for diskDriver

By attemping to run a Gaia server on Windows 10 machine with default config.json (copy of config.sample.disk.json) following error shows up: src\server\server.js -> lib\server\server.js

"function":"Module._load","line":489,"method":"_load","native":false}],"stack":["Error: UNKNOWN: unknown error, lstat '\\\\Users\\home\\'"," at Object.fs.lstatSync (fs.js:941:11)"," at DiskDriver.mkdirs (C:\\Users\\home\\dev\\gaia\\hub\\lib\\server\\drivers\\diskDriver.js:56:39)"," at new DiskDriver (C:\\Users\\home\\dev\\gaia\\hub\\lib\\server\\drivers\\diskDriver.js:41:10)"," at makeHttpServer (C:\\Users\\home\\dev\\gaia\\hub\\lib\\server\\http.js:51:14)"," at Object.<anonymous> (C:\\Users\\home\\dev\\gaia\\hub\\lib\\index.js:15:36)"," at Module._compile (module.js:635:30)"," at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:646:10)"," at Module.load (module.js:554:32)"," at tryModuleLoad (module.js:497:12)"," at Function.Module._load (module.js:489:3)"],"level":"error","message":"uncaughtException: UNKNOWN: unknown error, lstat '\\\\Users\\home\\'","timestamp":"2018-07-21T08:04:56.676Z"

Tried creating the /tmp/gaia-data folder on main drive manually, that did not seem to help. Neither did changing paths in config.json have any positive results, always ending up with the same error, but with different paths.

Mac OS did not seem to have this issue, I’m not sure if Gaia server is even supposed to run on Windows, if not it would be a good idea to mention that in README file.

[zone117x]

From what I can tell it is trivial (unless there related code that I’ve not seen):

• Get AppVeyor setup alongside CircleCI for tests on Windows (pretty easy - have set these integrations up on countless other repos).
• Address any remaining pathing issues (partially done now by using the fs-extra package)
• There are some package.json scripts that need to use use shx (shx rm -rf ... vs rm -rf ...) for cross platform unix commands.

[zone117x]

It is likely this was fixed with changes from around a year ago, but hasn’t been tested. Closing this issue due to lack of activity. Please feel free to comment if this should be re-opened.