Hi, I'd like to raise my concern about Windows support, as we are getting closer to 4.0 release.
Since the support for JDK11 (CASSANDRA-9608), Windows script to start Cassandra is broken. The fix for the script is posted to https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/CASSANDRA/issues/CASSANDRA-14608. Windows scripts are not maintained recently, and I don't think we have any Windows environment in CI for testing. I don't think it is a good idea to release Apache Cassandra with broken Windows scripts. With the latest update of Windows 10, even the Windows 10 Home edition users can use Docker for Windows if they enable WSL2 in their machine. However, the update is not yet available for everyone, and I believe many Enterprises hold onto upgrading to the latest version. Even if they do so, they can disable WSL2 from using. Some companies may not allow installing VirtualBox either. So, what we can do for 4.0 release: - Stop supporting Windows. Remove every bat/ps1 scripts from the source and distribution. Encourage Windows users to use VM/Docker. - Continue supporting Windows. Set up Windows test environment. Test every Windows scripts for future releases. Since I saw enterprises with restricted dev environments (and saw people trying to use cassandra on Windows on StackOverflow), I want to have Windows scripts ready to be used. But I'm also fine if we decide to remove all Windows scripts since I use Docker anyway. Regards, Yuki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
