Windows: Problem with deeply nested node_module folder structure

[herom]

recently, I ran into a problem when I used the grunt-contrib-testem module within my project, as it seems that this module creates an awful lot of nested node_module folders for each and every dependency.

the problem was, that the folder structure was so deeply nested that the path got too long (restricted to 260 characters, even in Windows 7 Professional 64-bit with NTFS file system - "backwards compatibility" is the killer-phrase for this behavior) and it's impossible to remove the the whole grunt-contrib-nested folder from the root node_module folder.

is there a solution to keep the folder structure more flat/concat node_module folders somehow?

[Mithgol]

Duplicate of a previous known issue (#6960).

[tjfontaine]

Indeed closing as duplicate.

[herom]

sorry, I didn't do proper research within the already raised issues - hope that this will get fixed anytime soon as it prevents many other devs on Windows machines using some cool plugins as well, I suppose...

[rlidwka]

it prevents many other devs on Windows machines using some cool plugins as well

I'm pretty sure they can, since VirtualBox runs on windows just fine.