Where are we on Windows support? The last time I heard, the unofficial Windows binaries that can be built at the moment are not ready for the prime time. Is this still the case. If we're doing a windows release, who is going to prepare the release artefact?
On 25 Jun 2010, at 01:20, Damien Katz wrote: > It looks like the file deletion issue may be already fixed windows. If we can > get confirmation the Windows compaction and deletion problems are fixed, I > think we can prepare a release artifact to vote on. > > -Damien > > > On Jun 24, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > >> >> On 24 Jun 2010, at 01:22, Damien Katz wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 23, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Paul Davis wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Damien Katz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I think we are really close to being ready for 1.0. >>>>> >>>>> Are there any issues/patches that need to be handled before we make a >>>>> release and vote on it? >>>>> >>>>> Noah, do you have any issues, and can you make the branch and release >>>>> candidate? >>>>> >>>>> One thing I can think of is windows file support, so that compaction and >>>>> deletion work properly. There exists a fix for it from Mark Hammond, but >>>>> we need a patched Erlang VM before the fix can work. The upcoming R14B >>>>> includes the VM patch, but I think we should wait until it's actually >>>>> released before we include Mark's fix. >>>>> >>>>> -Damien >>>> >>>> If you mean the SHARED_DELETE thing for opening files, that was >>>> included in R14A which was released the other day. >>> >>> I do mean the SHARED_DELETE thing, and I didn't know that. Great news! >>> >>> Anyone up for merging the patch and testing on windows? >>> >>> Patch is here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-86 >> >> The patch is stale, we'd need somebody to get it applying to trunk. Anyone? >> >> Cheers >> Jan >> -- >> >
