On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan Diephouse wrote: > >> I recognize that Windows support is, um, limited :-) But, any ideas what >> exactly would need to be changed to support Windows (without cygwin) if >> someone such as myself were so motivated? The most immediate thing I ran >> into was the UserGroupInformation which would need a windows >> implementation. >> I see there is an issue to switch to JAAS too, which may be the proper >> fix? >> Are there lots of other things that would need to be changed? >> >> I think it may be worth opening a JIRA for windows support and creating >> some >> subtasks for the various issues, even if no one tackles them quite yet. >> >> Thanks, >> Dan >> >> > I think a key one you need to address is motiviation. Is cygwin that bad > for a piece of server-side code? > No.... I guess I was trying to get an idea of how much work it was. It seems easy enough to supply a WindowsUserGroupInformation class (or a platform agnostic one). I wondered how many other things like this there were before I put together a patch. Seems bad Java practices to depend on shell utilities :-). Not very platform agnostic... Dan -- Dan Diephouse http://netzooid.com/blog
