We either support it or we don't. "Unofficial" support is no
support. Defining "badly break" will be impossible.
If we support it, we must have all unit tests passing on Windows
before releases.
If we don't support it, contributors are welcome to submit patches to
fix issues for Windows as they find them.
Nige
On Jan 23, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Raghu Angadi wrote:
I think we should at least "unoffically" support windows. I am not
sure what exactly it should mean. It could imply: no official tests
or performance tests before a release. A patch should not badly
break windows (if someone reports the problem), in most cases.
I don't run Hadoop on windows myself but surely think it is very
important, especially for beginners. as an added bonus they learn
about goodies like cygwin, ssh :-).
There are multiple examples where the implementation of a feature
improved because of different considerations for Windows.
Raghu.
Konstantin Shvachko wrote:
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
