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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-1406:
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The current Windows support focusses on users who want to implement Flink
programs on Windows.
The {{./bin/start-local.bat}} script starts a local Flink instance (JobManager
and single TaskManager share a JVM) and {{./bin/flink.bat}} is a command line
client. Besides that, users can always implement and test programs in their IDE.
+1 for extending the documentation to tell users that they can develop Flink
programs on Windows!
> Windows compatibility
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> Key: FLINK-1406
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1406
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Max Michels
> Priority: Minor
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> The documentation [1] states: "Flink runs on all UNIX-like environments:
> Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin. The only requirement is to have a working Java 6.x
> (or higher) installation."
> I just found out Flink runs also natively on Windows. Do we want to support
> Windows? If so, we should update the documentation. Clearly, we don't support
> it at the moment for development. At multiple places, the tests contain
> references to "/tmp" or "/dev/random/" which are not Windows compatible.
> Probably it's enough to update the documentation stating that Flink runs on
> Windows but cannot be build or developed on Windows without Cygwin.
> [1] http://flink.apache.org/docs/0.7-incubating/setup_quickstart.html
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