windows path issue - maybe doesnt work with nodist?

[osher]

generally I love the idea, but never got to actually use it.
every year I come back and give yoeman a try, especially when I work for a new customer and have to provide them with a boilerplate for a microservice architecture or something of that sort, and unfortunately, have to makedo without.

Here's my recent experience.

Summary:

• Installed globally yo and some random generator (in my case venv).
• tried to use it
  it failed - complained about not finding the file in the template.
• listing the dir works, and listing the file specifically works. wtf...
• ran doctor, tried to follow the advise.
  it still fails.

Here's the full console session.
Using nodist, and gnu-on-windows (gow).

full output

C:\sandbox>node -v
v12.18.4

C:\sandbox>npm -v
7.5.6

C:\sandbox>npm i -g yo generator-venv --registry https://registry.npmjs.org
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: cross-spawn no longer requires a build toolchain, use it instead
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142

added 1206 packages, and audited 1255 packages in 54s

59 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

found 0 vulnerabilities

C:\sandbox>yo venv
? ==========================================================================
We're constantly looking for ways to make yo better!
May we anonymously report usage statistics to improve the tool over time?
More info: https://github.com/yeoman/insight & http://yeoman.io
========================================================================== No

     _-----_     ╭───────────────────╮
    |       |    │   Welcome To Yo   │
    |--(o)--|    │   Venv Generator  │
   `---------´   │   Developed By :  │
    ( _´U`_ )    │    Hossam Hilal   │
    /___A___\   /╰───────────────────╯
     |  ~  |
   __'.___.'__
 ´   `  |° ´ Y `

? What is the name of your project? (sandbox) Run-async wrapped function (sync) returned a promise but async() callback must be executed to resolve.
? What is the name of your project? testyoman
? What is a description of your project f
? What version is your project? (hint: use semver like 0.0.0) 0.0.0
? How is your project licensed? MIT
? What is the author name? me
? What is the author email? [email protected]
? Which additional features would you like to include? Bootstrap
? Check the features needed for your project: Babel, Router, Axios
Error venv

Trying to copy from a source that does not exist: C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules\generator-venv\app\templates/babel.config.js

C:\sandbox>ls -la "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules\generator-venv\app\templates"
total 92
drw-rw-rw-  6 user 0  4096 2021-04-22 20:54 .
drw-rw-rw-  3 user 0     0 2021-04-22 20:54 ..
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   214 1985-10-26 11:15 .editorconfig
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   573 1985-10-26 11:15 .eslintrc.js
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0  1550 1985-10-26 11:15 .jshintrc
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0  2012 1985-10-26 11:15 App.vue
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0    66 1985-10-26 11:15 babel.config.js
drw-rw-rw-  2 user 0     0 2021-04-22 20:54 components
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0  1025 1985-10-26 11:15 config.js
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0  4286 1985-10-26 11:15 favicon.ico
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   780 1985-10-26 11:15 index.html
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0    60 1985-10-26 11:15 jest.config.js
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0 11286 1985-10-26 11:15 logo.png
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   430 1985-10-26 11:15 main.js
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   358 1985-10-26 11:15 main.ts
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   500 1985-10-26 11:15 modernizr.json
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0  1851 1985-10-26 11:15 package.json
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   287 1985-10-26 11:15 README.md
drw-rw-rw-  2 user 0     0 2021-04-22 20:54 router
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   304 1985-10-26 11:15 shims-tsx.d.ts
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0    72 1985-10-26 11:15 shims-vue.d.ts
drw-rw-rw-  2 user 0     0 2021-04-22 20:54 store
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   683 1985-10-26 11:15 tsconfig.json
drw-rw-rw-  2 user 0     0 2021-04-22 20:54 views
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0   643 1985-10-26 11:15 webpack.config.js

C:\sandbox>ls -la "C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules\generator-venv\app\templates/babel.config.js"
-rw-rw-rw-  1 user 0 66 1985-10-26 11:15 C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules\generator-venv\app\templates/babel.config.js

C:\sandbox>yo doctor

Yeoman Doctor
Running sanity checks on your system

√ No .bowerrc file in home directory
√ Global configuration file is valid
× NODE_PATH matches the npm root

Unable to find the npm root, something went wrong.
Try to execute npm -g root --silent on your command-line

√ No .yo-rc.json file in home directory
√ Node.js version
√ npm version
√ yo version

Found potential issues on your machine :(

C:\sandbox>npm -g root
C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules

C:\sandbox>npm -g root --silent
C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules

C:\sandbox>yo venv

     _-----_     ╭───────────────────╮
    |       |    │   Welcome To Yo   │
    |--(o)--|    │   Venv Generator  │
   `---------´   │   Developed By :  │
    ( _´U`_ )    │    Hossam Hilal   │
    /___A___\   /╰───────────────────╯
     |  ~  |
   __'.___.'__
 ´   `  |° ´ Y `

? What is the name of your project? (sandbox) Run-async wrapped function (sync) returned a promise but async() callback must be executed to resolve.
? What is the name of your project? testyo
? What is a description of your project f
? What version is your project? (hint: use semver like 0.0.0) 0.0.0
? How is your project licensed? MIT
? What is the author name? me
? What is the author email? [email protected]
? Which additional features would you like to include? Bootstrap
? Check the features needed for your project: Babel, Router, Axios
Error venv

Trying to copy from a source that does not exist: C:\Program Files (x86)\Nodist\bin\node_modules\generator-venv\app\templates/babel.config.js

C:\sandbox>