Download WP with npm

[wesleytodd]

As recommended here: yeoman/generator#800 (comment)
Due to this problem: #152

We should look at using npm to install WP. I am not entirely sure it is the BEST way, but it might be a fairly simple way to avoid the problems that #152 revealed.

[Toddses]

How would we go about this? Include WordPress git repo as a dependency in the package manifest?

[wesleytodd]

TBH, I'm not really sure what the best way would be. I was thinking something like making a tmp directory with a package.json, then moving everything over. But that seems ripe for problems.

[escobar022]

There is another generator that is currently using .zip vs .tar, seems there might be an issue how tar is now being handled. I will fork and look into it. Is there a particular preference or reason why it should be tar?