Chris, This is very informative and useful. Thank you so much for sharing this. I will try this out.
Yeah I think most of the issues come from path and symlinks. I think Tracy already figured the problems out. Looking forward to the contribution. - Sijie On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Chris Nauroth <cnaur...@apache.org> wrote: > Microsoft offers free MSDN licenses to Apache committers. The request > process is documented here: > > https://s.apache.org/BDIK > > You'll need to be able to authenticate with your ASF account to access that > link. > > This means that for committers who don't usually work on Windows, you have > an option for running a Windows VM at no personal cost, in case you want to > verify a patch running on Windows. The approval process for the license > can take a long time though. > > From past experience working on Windows compatibility for other projects > like Hadoop and ZooKeeper, it's very common for software developed > initially on Linux to assume '/' as the file path separator, and it looks > like that's what is happening here. If DistributedLog wants to support > Windows as a development platform, then the effort would involve tracking > down incompatibilities like this and fixing them. > > This could be a great area for a developer working on Windows to start > contributing some patches too! > > > > Chris Nauroth > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Tracy Martin <tracy_mar...@genpt.com> > wrote: > > > Pasted log here: > > > > https://gist.github.com/adamtracymartin/2ec2585d9d8efa8f81cbbcaaa2a2ed90 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Franck Cuny [mailto:franck.c...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 7:57 PM > > To: dev@distributedlog.incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Git Workflow on Windows > > > > Hello Tracy, > > > > could you paste the complete output of the command you run somewhere ? > > > > As far as I know, we haven't tried to build DLog on a windows system, and > > I don't think we've made any effort to support this so far. > > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 11:35 AM Tracy Martin <tracy_mar...@genpt.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I am fixing DL-28 after the merge, and I am following the "Git > Workflow" > > > described here: > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DL/Contributing+to+Distrib > > > utedLog > > > > > > I am getting many failures running step 4 > > > > > > mvn clean apache-rat:check package findbugs:check > > > > > > from my Windows desktop. > > > > > > I know the error received in DL-28 was related to running the build on > > > Windows instead of Unix. Many of the errors that I see in the tests > > > point to a Windows only problem. Most of the errors reports are "Path > > > must start with / character". > > > > > > I know when I was first reading about DistributedLog that it required > > > Unix. Is the plan to only run from Unix systems? If so, I will look > > > at creating a Unix environment for building, testing, and running. > > > This e-mail and any attachments, contain Genuine Parts Company > > > confidential information that is proprietary, privileged, and > > > protected by applicable laws. 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