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
>> --
>> 
> 

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