Hi Suresh,

On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Suresh Marru wrote:

> [...snip...]
> Should we explicitly state that Airavata does not support windows at all? I 
> am open to hearing community input here. 

In OODT-ville, we encourage users to use Cygwin on Windows. Most or all of OODT 
works using Cygwin and it's an alternative
for folks who are willing to install it. 

In Nutch and Hadoop, we also stated this to our users too.

So +1 for the below.

> 
> Third alternative is, support windows applications through cygwin. 
> 
> Once we get some discussion and community input, please raise an issue, 
> either the features have to added or documentation has to be fixed and exit 
> out of this error gracefully. 

Cheers,
Chris

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