Daniel Vimont created HBASE-16568:
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Summary: Remove Cygwin-oriented instructions (for installing HBase
in Windows OS) from official reference materials
Key: HBASE-16568
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-16568
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: documentation
Affects Versions: 2.0.0
Reporter: Daniel Vimont
Assignee: Daniel Vimont
Priority: Minor
Cygwin-oriented instructions in the official reference materials (for
installing HBase in a Windows environment) seem to be out of date and
incorrect; a number of unresolved/unresolvable requests for help have been
posted to [email protected] and [email protected] mailing lists.
Discussions on [email protected] and HBase Slack channel resulted in (1) no
volunteers to update/maintain the Cygwin-oriented instructions, and (2) several
"+" votes and no "-" votes on the suggestion of removing Cygwin-oriented
instructions from the official reference materials.
FUTURE POSSIBLE FOLLOW-UP: For the sake of setting up a
development/testing/sandbox environment in Windows, it might be helpful to
recommend the installation of a virtual machine environment (e.g. VirtualBox)
in a Windows OS, followed by the installation of an appropriate flavor of Linux
(e.g., Ubuntu) in the VM. After this, all the standard HBase
installation/config/usage instructions can be followed.
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