potential fixes for windows

hopefully fixes scss and email generation on windows by fixing runcmd()
and (optionally) reading npm bin location from the 'npm bin' command.
also, config path is cast to string before being passed to configparser.

scss/get_node_deps.py

@@ -1,14 +1,22 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
 import subprocess
+import os
 from pathlib import Path
 
+
 def runcmd(cmd):
+    if os.name == "nt":
+        return subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True)
     proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
     return proc.communicate()
 
+
 print('Installing npm packages')
 
+if os.name == "nt":
+    print("Note: npm on windows installs all packages in the root directory, so things might get ugly.")
+
 root_path = Path(__file__).parents[1]
 runcmd(f'npm install --prefix {root_path}')