Hi,
Recently I ran into an existing issue [1] running Nifi's python
extensions on windows. It appears that windows uses Scripts instead of
bin to store the python virtual environment executable binaries [2]. As
the user mentions simply renaming the directory name to bin does not
work. It does seem to work when I introduce a config to allow the
virtual environment binary directory to be specified [3]. This allows
the directory to be updated following installation which enables the
server to start and it allows me to run python processors that do not
have other cross operating system incompatibilities. This makes windows
usage with the extensions possible so at a minimum I'd like this PR to
be considered. I've also worked on projects that build toggles between
operating systems using Java System properties similar to the util Nifi
has [4]. Does Nifi have an opinion on whether this sort of OS toggling
should be automatic or just possible by manually updating the configs.
I'm happy to update my PR to add some automatic toggling based on OS.
Thanks!
- Bob Paulin
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-12514
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html
[3] https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/8500
[4]
https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/7db1664a7e2d473a5e30633bea547004e22487c6/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-framework-bundle/nifi-framework/nifi-nar-utils/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/nar/OSUtil.java#L19
