On 17 February 2015 at 21:52:47, Colin McCabe
(cmcc...@alumni.cmu.edu<mailto:cmcc...@alumni.cmu.edu>) wrote:
Re: building Windows binaries. Do we release binaries for all the
Linux and UNIX architectures? I thought we didn't. It seems a little
inconsistent to release binaries just for Windows, but not for those
other architectures and OSes. I wonder if we can improve this
situation?
Windows has less variance; one CPU family; if you target one version its there;
if you test on that then you can say "works on 64-bit server 2012". Win32 isn't
handled no-one would ever use it in production (RAM limitations alone). There's
clearly interest in JIRA for a version of the client-side code there
There's a more subtle detail: we don't expect all windows users to have the
build tools. Whereas on Linux it's pretty much all there.
Now, if someone wanted to produce native libs for other platforms, and help
test them, we'd probably have to think about what to do then.
On that topic, Colin -can you take a look at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10846 ; PowerPC native CRC. I
Think the latest patch isn't going to have any adverse effects on x86, but more
native-code reviews would help.
