I do all my development on Windows, but only run tests in a single process (using MiniDFSCluster, MiniMRCluster, MiniHBaseCluster, etc.) For big tests, HBase uses a small Linux cluster.
However, given my employer, I would say that supporting Windows is a good thing. --- Jim Kellerman, Powerset (Live Search, Microsoft Corporation) > -----Original Message----- > From: Konstantin Shvachko [mailto:s...@yahoo-inc.com] > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:41 AM > To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: Re: Should we continue to support Windows? > > Of course we should support Windows. It's 90% of the market :-) > Seriously, there is a lot of students out there running one-two node > clusters. > > HADOOP-5114. The problem seems to be in ConnectException. > The rest is just how it is revealed by different servers/clients. > > --Konstantin > > Nigel Daley wrote: > > I'm moving the comment I made on > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5114 > > to core-dev so we can discuss this. > > > > The Jira indicates that there are currently 30 test failures on > > Windows. If this is true, and no one has report Windows test failures > > before now (we haven't run Windows tests in a while), then should we > > continue to support Windows? > > > > If we *do* continue to support Windows, is anyone motivated to fix > > HADOOP-5114? > > > > Nige > >
