On 9/25/06, Jim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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You can get it working on Windows if you're willing to work for it. To use
Nutch OOTB, you have to install Cygwin since the provided Nutch launcher is
written in Bash.
Members of the community have provided alternatives, such as this Python
lanucher: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/CrossPlatformNutchScripts
</flamebait>
The way I see it, the existing shell scripts are not a permanent
solution. That said, python is better than (ba)sh, but java would be
even better (even though fs operations are not one liners). My (very
superfluous, but still) experiences with bean shell suggest that it
might be a good long term, platform independent solution.
It will probably happen when someone scratches that particular itch,
though, meaning it's author is going to be someone developing on
windows. :)
t.n.a.
