npm install fails on Windows when user path contains spaces (Expand-Archive path splitting)

[tommylee1115]

Bug Description

npm install -g @googleworkspace/cli fails on Windows when the user's home directory path contains a space (e.g. C:\Users\Tommy Lee\...). The installer downloads the zip successfully but fails to extract it, leaving gws.exe missing.

Error

Error fetching release: An error occurred unzipping the artifact: 
stdout: ; stderr: New-Item : Access to the path 'Tommy' is denied.

PowerShell splits the path C:\Users\Tommy Lee\... at the space, treating Tommy as the destination path and Lee\... as a separate token.

Root Cause

In the generated binary-install.js, the Windows extraction uses spawnSync with tempFile and installDirectory passed as separate array arguments after the -Command scriptblock:

result = spawnSync("powershell.exe", [
  "-NoProfile",
  "-NonInteractive",
  "-Command",
  `& {
      param([string]$LiteralPath, [string]$DestinationPath)
      Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $LiteralPath -DestinationPath $DestinationPath -Force
  }`,
  tempFile,           // ← passed as separate arg
  this.installDirectory, // ← passed as separate arg
]);

PowerShell's -Command flag concatenates all arguments after it into a single string. So C:\Users\Tommy Lee\... becomes two tokens: C:\Users\Tommy and Lee\....

Fix

Embed the paths directly inside the -Command string with single quotes:

result = spawnSync("powershell.exe", [
  "-NoProfile",
  "-NonInteractive",
  "-Command",
  `Expand-Archive -LiteralPath '${tempFile}' -DestinationPath '${this.installDirectory}' -Force`,
]);

Single-quoted strings in PowerShell are treated as literals — the path is never split regardless of spaces.

Note on generated code

binary-install.js is generated by cargo-dist. The fix may need to be applied upstream in axodotdev/cargo-dist rather than in this repo directly.

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Username path: C:\Users\Tommy Lee\ (space in username)
• npm version: global install via npm install -g @googleworkspace/cli
• Package version: 0.18.0