I've created a bug with a couple of subtasks identifying the issues I've found so far for building/running on windows. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-370
In terms of priority I believe it makes sense to ensure that windows users can build and run the project. There are lots of them out there. Personally I see no problem with requiring them to install Cygwin first, although long term it would be great to remove this requirement. I hope to find the time to make this work but feel free to lower the priority of these issues. Ross On 17 April 2012 23:19, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > > > On Apr 17, 2012 5:51 PM, "Mattmann, Chris A (388J)" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > That would be fine but as I reported it doesn't work under Cygwin. > > I'll try and debug the cause but since I just want to see it try something > out I'll stick it on a VM for now, record an issue and update the docs. > >> 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 >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. >> Senior Computer Scientist >> NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA >> Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 >> Email: [email protected] >> WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department >> University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
